Family and friends fired Fernando Ruiz, a young man shot dead in Reynosa, Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas state experienced one of its most violent days on June 19, or members of organized crime claim the lives of 14 people in several settlements in the city of Reynosa; among them was Angel Fernando Ruiz Flores, a 19-year-old young man with less than five siblings.

Fernando Ruiz placeholder image, originally from Rio Bravo, she did masonry and plumbing work to pay for her nursing education; The post was obtained by his father-in-law, Jesús Martínez, in a company that provides services to the Municipal Commission for Drinking Water and Sanitation of Reynosa.

Saturday, Fernando was repairing a drain in the Almaguer neighborhood when the shooting started, her stepfather ordered workers to enter a house for safety, however, the young man and two other of his companions died when they were hit by the armed command.

“They killed him in cold blood, him and two of his companionsSaid her sister, Olga Ruiz.

This Monday her body was veiled at the Rio Bravo funeral home by her family and friends; shortly after three in the afternoon, they left for the pantheon to say their last farewells.

Amidst tears, family and colleagues gathered around his coffin to say goodbye, “We never thought we would be this time, this place, this day“said one of the participants.

The nursing student is one of the 13 other people who were killed by contract killers who entered the town of Reynosa in various vehicles, the shooting provoked the mobilization of the army, the national guard, the state police and the public prosecutor; a day later, authorities confirmed that they had killed 4 of those involved.

“With regard to the reprehensible events recorded in Reynosa, which claimed the lives of innocent citizens, I gave instructions to clarify as soon as possible what happened and prosecute those responsibleSaid the governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca.

He expressed his solidarity with the families of victims who died due to the actions of organized crime and He said his government would provide them with the necessary support “in these difficult times”.

“Criminal organizations must receive from the federal government a clear, explicit and strong signal that there will be no room for impunity, nor tolerance for their reprehensible criminal behavior», He concluded.

For its part, The Nuevo Laredo Human Rights Committee (CDH) said the criminals took advantage of the absence of state police and federal authorities to shoot pointlessly..

Likewise, he expressed his condolences to the relatives of the deceased victims and wished the survivors of the attack a speedy recovery; noted that in the city, the state’s public security system has failedTherefore, the lack of effective communication between state and federal authorities to protect the population was evident.

He said that, according to testimonies, For more than an hour, calls for help were generated to the authorities at 911, others shared by messages on mobile phones or social networks to denounce the armed attacks. and “no federal or state authority responded in a timely manner to these appeals”, which it created an atmosphere of collective terror and a perception of total insecurity.

The president of the CDH in Nuevo Laredo, Raymundo Ramos, felt it urgent that the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) investigate the facts, while There is mistrust of the entity towards the chief prosecutor, Irvin Barrios Mójica, for turning the institution into an instrument of political revenge in the service of the governor.

“We are facing an obvious act of post-electoral terror towards the people of Reynosa and probably before a warning message for the rest of the municipalities of Tamaulipas», Declared the president of the CDH.

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