Taxi driver who intentionally ran over a woman and killed her in Puerto Vallarta has been arrested

Puerto Vallarta (PVDN) – On Sunday afternoon, Érika Noemí Chávez Cruz and her seven-year-old son were at Conchas Chinas beach, in Puerto Vallarta, with her presumed boyfriend, a taxi driver, according to police reports.

After the couple has an argument, Érika and her son left on foot. The boyfriend boarded his taxi and ran over them on Amapas street.

Érika was run over several times until she was killed. During the vehicular homicide, the subject crashed several cars and fled, leaving his taxi abandoned. This Wednesday, the FGE Jalisco reported the capture of Javier I., identified as the perpetrator of the crime.

At least 20 women were murdered in Jalisco in January

A subject shot his wife and mother-in-law to death inside the state Public Ministry agency in the municipality of Poncitlán, Jalisco, on Tuesday afternoon. The 45-year-old woman died at the scene, and the youngest, 21, died receiving medical attention at a hospital in Ocotlán, a neighboring town where the victim was transferred.

The women, identified as Liliana Tinoco Tovar and Alondra Liliana Franco Tinoco, respectively, went to the agency to report family violence against the youngest when the assailant entered a few seconds later, shot both of them repeatedly and fled without being arrested, announced the state prosecutor, Luis Joaquín Méndez.

“We have personnel inside who are auxiliary to the MP; The agent in charge of the delegation was also there. The investigative police carried out investigations in the field and the ministerial staff was threatened by this armed subject. Based on the information they give, the aggression was so rapid that it could not be neutralized,” Méndez acknowledged.

The murderer arrived in a van that he left parked in the middle of the street, just as the mother and daughter entered the building; he broke in and shot them in front of the staff, ran out, and abandoned the vehicle.

According to the authority, several homes in Poncitlán where the attacker, his wife, and mother-in-law originate from, were checked, but so far they have not found the whereabouts of the subject.

Alondra was the mother of two children and the second of Liliana’s daughters.

Likewise, the body of a female was discovered on the Morelia-Guadalajara highway, municipality of Tizapán el Alto, and on Monday, another woman was shot to death in Zapopan. At least 20 women were murdered in Jalisco in January.

Puerto Vallarta (PVDN) - On Sunday afternoon, Érika Noemí Chávez Cruz and her seven-year-old son were at Conchas Chinas beach, in Puerto . . .

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