2 close relatives of Mexico’s education minister murdered in Colima

An aunt and relative of national Education Minister Mario Delgado were murdered connected Saturday greeting successful the metropolis of Colima, superior of the tiny Pacific seashore authorities of Colima.

Later connected Saturday, 3 radical who allegedly participated successful the treble homicide were changeable dormant by police, authorities authorities said.

The victims of the treble homicide were identified arsenic María Eugenia Delgado Guizar, 72, and her daughter, Sheila María Eugenia Amezcua Delgado, 49.

The erstwhile was Mario Delgado’s aunt, the sister of his father, portion the second was the acquisition minister’s cousin.

The Colima Attorney General’s Office (FGE) and the Colima authorities issued a connection that said the execution of the 2 women occurred astatine astir 4:30 a.m. Saturday successful Placetas Estadio, a vicinity successful Colima city.

Armed men reportedly broke into the women’s location and killed the parent and daughter.

The connection said that authorities constabulary attended the transgression country and subsequently began an probe into the treble homicide. It said the probe was being carried retired nether “the femicide protocol and the principles of sex perspective.”

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No imaginable motive for the transgression was mentioned successful the connection issued by the FGE and different authorities authorities.

The connection said that with the enactment of Colima authorities and national agencies “with a beingness successful the state,” and acknowledgment to “tracking” carried retired by the Colima C5 bid center, the “vehicle utilized successful the crime” and “some of the radical who participated” successful the execution were identified.

Authorities subsequently located the vehicle, a airy bluish Chevrolet Groove, extracurricular an code successful the municipality of Villa de Álvarez, which adjoins the municipality of Colima.

Police were met with gunfire erstwhile they approached the address, according to the authoritative statement. They returned occurrence and “three aggressors” were killed, the connection said.

One constabulary serviceman was shot, but was described arsenic being “out of danger.”

Those killed by constabulary were described successful the connection arsenic “alleged criminals who are presumed to person participated” successful the treble homicide successful the Placetas Estadio vicinity of Colima city.

The connection said that constabulary recovered weapons wrong the location successful Villa de Álvarez arsenic good arsenic assorted pieces of grounds that matched accusation obtained from the “analysis of videos of those [allegedly] responsible” for the execution of the 2 women. Among those pieces of evidence, the connection said, were apparel worn by the alleged perpetrators and a sledgehammer, which the aggressors presumably utilized to interruption into the Colima metropolis home.

Colima, which has a colonisation of astir 730,000, had the highest per capita homicide complaint among Mexico’s 32 national entities successful 2025. According to authoritative information compiled by the transgression statistic website elcri.men, Colima recorded 625 homicides past year, which equated to 81.5 murders per 100,000 people.

The municipality of Colima had the 14th highest per capita homicide complaint successful the state past year, according to elcri.men. Mexico has much than 2,400 municipalities.

Education curate expresses ‘deep dismay’ implicit the execution of his aunt and cousin 

Mario Delgado, a erstwhile president of the Morena enactment and an ex-federal deputy, acknowledged the execution of his aunt and relative successful a societal media station connected Saturday night.

Profunda consternación, indignación y tristeza por los hechos ocurridos esta madrugada en Colima donde mi tía Eugenia Delgado y mi prima Sheila fueron brutalmente asesinadas en su domicilio. Durante toda mi infancia mi tía Queña, como le decíamos de cariño, maine preparó mi pastel…

— Mario Delgado (@mario_delgado) February 1, 2026

In the post, the acquisition curate expressed “deep dismay, indignation and sadness” implicit the deaths of his aunt and cousin, who helium wrote were “brutally murdered astatine their home.”

“Throughout my full childhood, my aunt Queña, arsenic we affectionately called her, made my day cake. That’s however she made a living, moving hard, selling delicious cakes and nutrient from Colima arsenic lone she knew however to prepare. She is present with my grandparents and my father, her beloved brother,” wrote Delgado, a autochthonal of Colima city.

“[I nonstop a] hug with a batch of affection and solidarity to my uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces, and particularly to my relative Alex. We’re definite that the lawsuit volition beryllium solved and justness volition beryllium served. RIP,” helium wrote.

With reports from El Financiero, AFP and López-Dóriga Digital