Overview
- On Sept. 1, authorities found keyboardist Jonathan “Honas” Meléndez, his pregnant wife, their three-year-old daughter and a 21-year-old domestic worker dead at a residence in Atizapán de Zaragoza while the couple’s six-year-old son was found alive.
- A judge has linked two men, identified as Diego Sebastián 'N' and Gerardo 'N', to the homicides and ordered them held in preventive detention while the Fiscalía General de Justicia del Estado de México carries out a four-month complementary probe.
- On Sept. 14 the band announced a temporary pause to grieve and reorganize and said this is not a breakup but a pause before deciding future plans together.
- Camilo Séptimo postponed three concerts — Sept. 19 in Ciudad Juárez, Sept. 26 in Naucalpan and Oct. 10 in Pachuca — and canceled the Oct. 3 Nezahualcóyotl show, with refunds to be handled by the ticket vendors.
- The killings have shaken the band and fans and could shape the group’s schedule and projects as investigators seek to clarify motive and individual roles in the case.