Oaxaca prosecutors arrest suspect in femicide of student Zaira Marbellí Hernández Gaspar, Digi Mart USA News (Santa María Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico): The Oaxaca State Attorney General’s Office announced in a statement that a man identified as GAA was arrested on Saturday as the alleged perpetrator of the femicide of 19-year-old Zaira Marbellí Hernández Gaspar, an international relations student at the Universidad del Mar.
According to the investigation, the suspect, who is charged with aggravated femicide, was the victim’s roommate in Sector H3 of the municipal agency of La Crucecita, in the municipality of Santa María Huatulco in the Costa region.
The attorney general’s office said that in the early morning of November 3, GAA entered the victim’s room, attacked her and then strangled her. He then left the residence and took the victim’s cellphone, which he intended to sell.
After applying a series of tracking and analysis techniques, investigators identified a person who had allegedly bought the device. That person provided information and identified GAA as the seller of the phone.
With this evidence, prosecutors requested an arrest warrant from the control judge in San Pedro Pochutla. The judge issued the warrant, which was executed on Saturday.
The statement did not say where the arrest took place.
The suspect was presented before the public prosecutor, who will determine his legal status.
