In the last 20 months, 19 minors have died in Nuevo León, who for some reason were caught in the middle of armed confrontations or attacks.
During 2023, eight minors were killed and another eleven injured in various events related to organized crime when they were hit by bullets and were close to involved relatives.
According to official figures from the Attorney General’s Office, at least until last August, eleven minors had died, all between the ages of 13 and 17, when there were attacks on families or their parents were surprised in public by armed men.
Briana, 12 years old, had gone to visit her grandmother, today she is dead; she died in a hospital where she was admitted after being shot in the head when there was an attack on her grandmother’s house.
On April 25, a pair of armed men shot at the home, located on Privada Gómez Palacio and Revolución Street, in Barrio Durango, in Colonia Alianza Real, in the municipality of Escobedo.
The minor was shot in the head and her mother, seeing her wounded, took her in her arms and walked her to a nearby clinic in Colonia Privadas de Camino Real, where she died and the State Investigation Agency (AEI) was alerted.
In another case, a seven-year-old girl was shot after the vehicle in which she was traveling with her family was attacked by armed people.
The attack occurred in the Las Puentes 4th sector neighborhood, in the municipality of San Nicolás, where the family was finishing a mass to Saint Jude Thaddeus.
And in the same municipality while he was with his parents in a park, Bayron Eruviel, 3 years old, was shot in the stomach when a man arrived and attacked the family, last September.
In March, a man died when he was shot at the intersection of Antiguo Camino a Villa de Santiago and Arroyo La Chueca streets, in the Valle de Cristal neighborhood.
At the scene, a 7-year-old boy was shot through the leg.
For Tania Ramírez Hernández, executive director of the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico, the State of Mexico, Nuevo León and Mexico City are where one in three crimes against girls, boys and adolescents in the country occur.
She points out that multiple forms of violence in Mexico affect the lives of girls, boys and adolescents, and range from the family and community environment to events in public spaces where gun violence has had a greater impact.
So far, no authority has issued a statement about this situation that affects minors.
Source: lasillarota
