Overview
- A body identified as 16-year-old Mateo Hernández was found wrapped in blankets at the side of a rural road in Nicolás Bravo after being missing for four days, and first responders reported multiple signs of violence.
- Family and local reports say Mateo left home to meet classmates for a school assignment at a BUAP preparatory and was last seen before he vanished.
- The Fiscalía General del Estado’s Specialized Unit for Investigation of Kidnapping and Extortion opened inquiries under the hypothesis of illegal deprivation of liberty, and prosecutors are treating the case as an active homicide investigation.
- Crime-scene teams from municipal and state police, the National Guard and the army secured the location, forensic experts moved the remains to the Tehuacán Semefo, and the victim was formally identified by his father, Mayor Mateo Hernández López.
- Morena officials publicly demanded justice and the case is likely to increase pressure on local authorities to explain security actions and any links between alleged ransom claims and the killing, though reports of a ransom remain unconfirmed and no arrests have been announced.