The pain of a mother: she gave her son after seeing him shoot in the video of an execution in 2019

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A man identified as José Carlos M. M. was allegedly videotaped in late 2019 when he descended from a vehicle to shoot at close range against a man riding inside a Ford F-150 truck.

The authorities managed to arrest him in flagrance months later for the alleged possession of drugs, but they did not suspect that a complaint against him was coming from the least intended person.

José Carlos M. M's mother saw a video that went viral on social networks and television, where the accomplices of an alleged hitman record the moment when a young man descends from the car to shoot another driver.

After gunning the man with a firearm, the young man returns running to the unit and they flee from the place in the opposite direction to the one that circulated in the first instance.

Although the young man was already arrested for other accusations, he did not have an arrest warrant. It was his mother who went to the appropriate authorities to announce that his son is the supposed young man who fires a gun in the video.

As of the publication of said recording, allegedly disclosed by the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP), according to the Zócalo Group, the family of the alleged culprit was harassed through social networks, including the address where they live.

The pressure helped the mother to go to the North Zone Prosecutor in January 2020 to file a complaint and recognize her son as the alleged shooter so that he could be linked to the process.

His mother said that one of his biggest fears was to endanger the younger brothers of José Carlos M.M. Upon making his residence known. It was not specified whether they received direct threats from any criminal group or if it was the same users of social networks who threatened reprisals if the complaint was not materialized.

José Carlos M. M. would have been recognized by his mother through voice and clothing, in addition to the warnings that other relatives or neighbors gave him after showing him the video. “You saw your son”, they repeated when they played the recording from their mobile devices.

Following the complaint, the arrest warrant was made at the Social Readaptation Center (CERESO) number 3 of Ciudad Juárez. The suspect had already been arrested on charges of drug possession.

José Carlos was arrested by elements of the Municipal Public Security Secretariat (SSPM). Upon being available to the Public Prosecutor's Office and following his mother's complaint, the alleged shooter requested the arrest warrant immediately.

Now the 18-year-old faces several years in prison, linked to criminal proceedings for aggravated homicide.

The events occurred on December 22, 2019 at the intersection of Juan Pablo II and Francisco Villarreal in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The murdered man was Juan Carlos Talamantes, 20, who had no relationship with his murderer.

According to the representatives of the Prosecutor's Office, who read the statement of José Carlos M. M., third parties ordered the execution as a kind of debut within a criminal organization, Zócalo media reported.