Overview
- Authorities confirmed the body found Wednesday on kilometer 32 of the México–Tulancingo highway was 21-year-old UAEMex student Joselyn Sandoval after motorists alerted emergency crews.
- Paramedics and firefighters said the body had a gunshot wound to the head and that there were no signs of life at the scene.
- Two young men were found shot dead inside a parked car in Otumba the day before, one of whom local reports identified as Joselyn's boyfriend, and the Fiscalía had issued a missing-person alert for all three.
- Municipal and state police plus the National Guard secured the highway and Otumba scenes while the Fiscalía de Feminicidios awaited pericial teams to lift the body and start forensic and legal procedures.
- Joselyn's family and UAEMex have been involved in the search and identification and the case has heightened local concern about disappearances and lethal violence as investigators work to establish motive and locate any suspects.