Overview
- Mexico City authorities are searching for the victim’s mother-in-law, identified in local reports as Erika María “N,” under an arrest warrant that classifies the case as femicide.
- Footage published by news outlets shows Carolina Flores Gomez walking to get water as her mother-in-law follows, six gunshots are heard, and a voice says, “You’re mine and she stole you.”
- Police say Flores Gomez, 27, was shot inside her Polanco home on April 15 and that her husband, Alejandro Gomez, reported the killing the next day after the suspect had fled.
- Protesters gathered in Baja California over the weekend to demand justice, and the victim’s mother addressed the crowd through tears as friends described a long, tense relationship with the suspect.
- Prosecutors are examining the family’s actions around the shooting, and in Mexico a femicide label triggers specific investigative steps when a killing is suspected to be driven by gender-based motives.