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Zayda Pena a classic gangland-style slaying

Tue, 26 Dec 2007 19:44:00 GMT

posted by quantumleap

Peña was the vocalist for Zayda y Los Culpables a popular band that produced romantic ballads. Zayda Peña, 28, a singer who was shot dead Saturday in a hospital emergency room in the city of Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville.
An assassin put two bullets into Peña after she emerged from emergency surgery for a gunshot wound to the back she received the day before in a motel where she was staying.Although police said they they had no suspects or motive for the killing, it seemed a classic gangland-style slaying that has killed hundreds of people in Mexico this year.
She was fatally shot while recovering from a gunshot wound she received Friday at a hotel in Matamoros. Two others that were with Peña Friday were killed in the attack,
Sheriff’s deputy Alvaro Guerra, the liaison between county lawmen and the Tamaulipas State Police, confirmed late Monday that Mexican investigators contacted him regarding the 28-year-old singer’s slaying.

Sergio Gómez,Zayda Pena

Tue, 26 Dec 2007 17:58:00 GMT

posted by quantumleap

Sergio Gómez was kidnapped. Police found his body the next day. He'd been strangled and beaten. the savage murder of Sergio Gómez, one of Mexico's hottest singers, a headliner whose band, K-Paz de la Sierra, commanded $100,000 a show, twice the rate of other top bands was different. It has set off an unprecedented chain reaction in which at least half a dozen bands have canceled concert tours. Popular bands, such as the Duranguense act Patrulla 81, which backed out of four major shows, are terrified of coming to Morelia and the surrounding state of Michoacan.Gomez was killed hours after another singer, Zayda Pena, was killed in the border city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas state.
Pena, 28, was shot by an unknown assailant in hospital where she was recovering from a previous gunshot wound. The motive behind her murder is also unknown.Several of the murders of musicians over the past year are believed to be tied to organised crime and drug-trafficking. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Mexico this year as drug cartels battle for territory and drug routes.

Welcome to our wikizine about the murder of Zayda Pena

Fri, 8 Dec 2007 00:29:06 GMT

posted by The_Zimbio_Team
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Zayda Pena shot and killed

Fri, 8 Dec 2007 00:34:19 GMT

posted by The_Zimbio_Team
Mexican singer Zayda Pena was shot to death in a Mexican emergency room after coming out of surgery for being shot just the day before by a gang member. Organized crime is suspected in the case.

Zayda's murder is one of several crimes marring the Mexican music scene this year:

The latest casualty appears to be Zayda Peña, 28, a singer who was shot dead Saturday in a hospital emergency room in the city of Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville.

An assassin put two bullets into Peña after she emerged from emergency surgery for a gunshot wound to the back she received the day before in a motel where she was staying.

Although police said they they had no suspects or motive for the killing, it seemed a classic gangland-style slaying that has killed hundreds of people in Mexico this year.