Overview

• On May 25 at around 10 p.m., five members of Grupo Fugitivo were abducted in Reynosa after arriving to perform at what turned out to be an empty lot.
• Following the disappearance, relatives reported ransom demands and blocked traffic at border bridges to demand authorities act.
• Police recovered the band’s SUV on May 28 and found five bodies on May 29 at a site in the Aquiles Serdán neighborhood of Reynosa.
• Tamaulipas officials have arrested nine individuals linked to the Gulf Cartel’s Los Metros faction in connection with the kidnapping and killings.
• Investigators are confirming the victims’ identities and examining whether the musicians’ ties to regional music that sometimes valorizes cartel figures influenced the violence.