Overview
- The attack occurred on Thursday, October 1, when two 18-year-old ex-students entered Secundaria 13 in Ejido La Unión, Torreón, armed with machetes and homemade explosives, killing the school’s subdirector and wounding four others.
- A judge on October 4 linked David “N” and Carlos “N” to process for qualified homicide and attempted qualified homicide, ordered preventive detention and set a six-month complementary investigation that runs through April 4, 2027, with a possible combined sentence up to 60 years if convicted.
- Images and reports published this week show disturbing handwritten messages on the walls of the brothers’ connected bedrooms, and investigators are examining the suspects’ social media use and recovered artifacts that reference known foreign school attackers as active leads.
- The suspects were detained by members of the school community after the attack, and their mother told reporters the brothers were isolated, said authorities searched the home, and that she and relatives have received threats prompting her to leave the house.
- Federal authorities announced plans for a decree to require platforms to detect and remove content that incites violence while the CNI and SSPC increase monitoring, and state officials are coordinating medical care and socioemotional support for victims and the school community.