Overview

• Xiomara Mireya Flores Bazán, 37, was shot dead at the Túpac Amaru–Los Incas intersection while driving with her four children, and two daughters were wounded, including a 6-year-old reported in grave condition.
• Security cameras captured masked attackers exiting a dark vehicle and firing through the driver’s window, with at least 12 shell casings recovered as a nearby police patrol attempted to intervene.
• Her husband says the family faced extortion and prior attacks in December 2024 and rejects claims she collected “cupos,” describing her as a pastry maker, with La República noting no formal extortion complaint was filed.
• New reporting cites public records indicating the Audi Q3 previously belonged to Adam Lucano Smith Cotrina, known as “Jorobado,” a detail investigators are weighing as they assess possible gang rivalries.
• Intelligence-based accounts conflict on who ordered the hit, with some pointing to Erick Moreno Hernández, “El Monstruo,” via an operator called “Cachete,” and others naming Luis Vargas Marín, “Loco Joe,” while police have not confirmed arrests or a mastermind.