José Antonio Parada Cerpa and Ximena Quijano Hernández were medical students from Colombia and in that country they met Francisco Javier Tirado Márquez, also a medical student at the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla. The three young people agreed in Puebla and together they decided to attend the Carnival of Huejotzingo this weekend, but they were killed together with the UBER driver who was moving them and their bodies were found the morning of this February 24.
The morning of this Monday the discovery of four bodies was reported; among them the one of a woman, near the airport of Huejotzingo. The first versions indicated that a man and woman were originally from Colombia and that the victims had been executed elsewhere and only abandoned them there.
Later, the student community identified the victims as José Antonio Parada Cerpa, Ximena Quijano Hernández and Javier Tirado Márquez. The statement that was published on social networks explained that José Antonio and Ximena were from Colombia and both were in exchange for the Sanitas University Foundation, where they were doing their Undergraduate Rotary Internship at the General Hospital of Cholula.
Meanwhile, Javier was doing his Social Service in a community of Izúcar de Matamoros.
As the minutes passed, the universities identified the students. The two originally from Colombia were in exchange at the Autonomous Popular University of the State of Puebla (UPAEP) and began their service at the General Hospital of Cholula last August.
Javier Tirado was a student at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) and he was in exchange in Colombia. It was there that he met the other two victims.
The three students decided to go to the Carnival of Huejotzingo held during this weekend but no longer returned. They were killed together with the driver of the UBER platform that moved them and their bodies were found on land belonging to Santa Ana Xalmimilulco, auxiliary board of Huejotzingo.
Meanwhile, the UBER driver who transferred them was also killed and was identified as Joshua Emanuel Vital Castillo, 29 years old.
His family reported him missing yesterday and filed the corresponding complaint with the State Attorney General’s Office.
The agency opened the investigation folder 198/2020 / EDF and it indicated that the last time the young man was seen was on February 23 at approximately 08:30 in San Lorenzo Almecatla aboard his silver Beat car .
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