Overview
- Patricia Negrete Tafoya, a member of the Una Promesa por Cumplir search collective who had been looking for her sister since 2021, was shot dead beside a motorcycle near the Hospital Regional de Pénjamo, local authorities confirmed.
- The Fiscalía General del Estado de Guanajuato opened a homicide investigation and forensics teams collected ballistic evidence, including three spent casings and three long‑gun cartridges sent to forensic labs.
- Officials have not reported any arrests or identified suspects, and local media noted initial delays in official reporting of the killing.
- Amnesty International and Mexican search collectives demanded immediate, exhaustive and impartial probes, the identification of both material and intellectual authors, and urgent protection measures for family searchers.
- The killing is the latest in a series of attacks on buscadoras in Guanajuato and comes against a national backdrop of rising disappearances, with civil registries recording large increases that have drawn international concern.