Overview

• Antonio Flores Castro, 24, was fatally stabbed, and his 17-year-old brother Israel was seriously injured outside the Evangelical Church in Valencia’s Nazaret neighborhood.
• José M. M., 23, and his father Diego M. M., 42, were arrested in Málaga and remain in pretrial detention on charges of homicide and attempted homicide.
• The attack stemmed from a disagreement about a church piano performance, which escalated after tensions in the congregational chat and during services.
• José M. M. reportedly had a history of violent behavior, including a prior incident at another Evangelical church where he allegedly assaulted a pastor.
• Evangelical pastors are mediating within the prominent Flores family lineage, which descends from the revered Roma patriarch José Flores 'el Chele', to prevent retaliatory violence.