Overview

• Security officials reported the detention of Miguel Ángel N in Chilpancingo as a presumed co-participant in the priest’s killing, and he was placed before a public prosecutor to determine his legal status.
• The arrest followed an operation coordinated by Guerrero’s prosecutor and state security with the SSPC, Sedena, Semar, the FGR, and the National Guard, and an arrest warrant was executed.
• The Guerrero state attorney’s office is investigating the case as qualified homicide.
• Authorities’ working hypothesis points to the priest’s driver as a possible perpetrator, while motives and individual roles remain under investigation and no prior threats to the priest have been identified.
• Father Bertoldo Pantaleón Estrada, parish priest in Mezcala, Eduardo Neri, was reported missing in early October and was later found shot to death alongside a federal highway near the municipal seat of Zumpango.