Mexico City /
The García Gómez family was driving to the National Auditorium, where they have a quesadilla stall, when they realized that a group of armed men on board a van began shooting at the Suburban, where the Secretary of Citizen Security was transported, Omar García Harfuch. One of those bullets directed at the Chief of Police ended up in the head of Gabriela Gómez, who died almost instantly.
Gabriela was 26 years old, the mother of two girls; one of 9 years and another of 4. Today it was two weeks ago that together with her husband José García, and her two sisters Tania, 19, and Bethzaida, 28, she had returned to sell her Mexican snacks at her stall located next to the Metro Auditoriumbecause due to the pandemic by covid-19 they stopped dating for two months.
Unlike other days, today they did not take turns taking care of the position that had been inherited by their parents for 10 years, but rather they all went together to adapt to the “new normal” and see if they could all sell a little more .
Román García, the victim’s brother-in-law, remembers that Gabriela and her family left their home in Xalatlaco, State of Mexico at 05:00 am. They were traveling in an Aveo model car.
“The driver was my brother José, Gabriela came from co-pilot and her two sisters in the back; they were doing well, they went out looking for bread and look what they found”, Shares.
In addition to Gabriela’s death, the confrontation wounded her sister Tania in the arm, while her husband José and sister Bethzaida are being detained as witnesses in the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office.
Gabriela was transferred to the Polanco Red Cross, where her family waits for the investigations to be completed and the body to be released, a process that they were told may take up to 12 hours.
The merchant family professed the Christian religion. Their business neighbors remember them as a family “who liked to help everyone, always very hardworking.”
“Gabriela always looked happy. She was super attentive. She liked helping people and she was super comfortable and very noble ”, shares a soft drink vendor from the Metro Auditorium.
Román points out that his brother and sister-in-law “were never aggressive and all the time tried to support those who needed it, including helping the homeless.”
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