Overview

• The Jalisco prosecutor confirmed on August 28 that the four bodies found on August 22 inside a gray Ford Ranger in Guadalajara’s colonia San Andrés were those of Esmeralda Ferrer, her husband Roberto Carlos Gil, and their children.
• The Forensic Medical Service determined the cause of death as gunshot wounds.
• Video-tracking led investigators to a mechanic shop on Avenida Ejido, where ballistic and blood traces were located and are being analyzed to confirm it as the likely crime scene.
• Officials say the main investigative line relates to the husband’s vehicle trade and tomato production businesses in Michoacán, not to Ferrer’s social media activity.
• Three workshop workers were detained and later released for lack of evidence, and several interviewees were then intercepted by an armed group near the prosecutor’s offices; no formal charges have been announced.