Overview

• State prosecutors report the case has been clarified, with an autopsy finding the 15-year-old died from mechanical asphyxia.
• Investigators say a search of a home in Ejido El Desierto located the victim’s body and material evidence that corroborated the crime’s mechanics and the suspects’ involvement.
• Authorities initially pursued an adult identified as Martín “N,” later found dead and confirmed by fingerprint analysis, before new evidence pointed to the two detained adolescents.
• The matter has been judicialized before the competent authority under the Sistema Integral de Justicia Penal para Adolescentes.
• Relatives have pressed the case on social media and called for tough sanctions, while reported motive accounts remain unverified.