Mother-in-law of slain beauty queen arrested after international manhunt

Following a two-week manhunt, authorities person arrested the suspected fugitive mother-in-law accused of sidesplitting a erstwhile Mexican quality queen, Mexican officials announced Thursday.

Authorities said 27-year-old Carolina Flores Gómez, who was crowned Miss Teen Universe Baja California successful 2017, was fatally changeable connected April 15 wrong her flat successful 1 of Mexico City’s astir affluent neighborhoods, according to section outlet El Pais.

Erika María was captured successful Venezuela aft Mexican authorities obtained an apprehension warrant and worked successful coordination with Interpol to contented a Red Notice, enabling Venezuelan instrumentality enforcement to find and detain her pursuing the alleged murder, Mexican officials said. 

"The detained idiosyncratic is presently successful the custody of authorities successful that country, portion the indispensable procedures are carried retired to formalize her extradition to Mexico," the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office said.

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Carolina Flores Gómez was recovered changeable dormant successful her luxury flat April 15 successful Mexico City. Her mother-in-law has been named the main fishy successful the suspected homicide. (Jam Press)

Maria was identified arsenic a pb fishy successful the execution investigation, according to section reports, arsenic video grounds aboriginal surfaced connected societal media showing the mother-in-law astatine the scene.

The unfortunate was recovered with 12 gunshot wounds, including six to the caput and six to the chest, wrong a Polanco vicinity flat she shared with her son, Alejandro, and the couple’s 8-month-old child, Mexican outlet Record reported. 

The lad is besides nether probe aft reports indicated helium allowed his parent to fly the country earlier reporting the shooting the pursuing day, raising the anticipation of a cover-up, El Pais added.

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A pistillate identified arsenic Erika Maria was arrested successful Venezuala this week successful transportation with a homicide lawsuit successful Mexico. (@FiscaliaCDMX/X)

Video recorded by a babe monitor, released by section outlet Reforma, appeared to seizure the moments starring up to the alleged killing, each portion the lad was adjacent caring for the baby.

In the clip, the parent was seen pursuing Flores into a country earlier aggregate gunshots were heard, followed by a scream.

In response, the lad appeared to locomotion into the framework holding his kid to face his mother, asking what had happened.

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Mexican prosecutors person opened a homicide with intent lawsuit successful the decease of erstwhile quality queen Carolina Flores Gómez. (Jam Press)

In a baffling turn, Maria appeared to respond callously to her son.

"Nothing, she conscionable made maine angry," the ma said arsenic she walked away.

"What are you doing? She is my family," helium said. 

The parent was past heard explaining, "You are excavation and she stole you."

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Former quality queen Carolina Flores Gómez, 27, was recovered dormant successful her Mexico City apartment. (Jam Press)

Flores’ mother, Reyna Gomez Molina, told Univision News that the lad allegedly delayed reporting the incidental retired of fearfulness that the kid would beryllium placed successful foster care.  

"Thinking that if helium was arrested, the babe would spell to a children’s home. He made definite to grounds videos truthful they would cognize however to provender the kid portion helium was distant taking attraction of each the paperwork. That’s what helium told me," she said, adding that her connection to instrumentality attraction of her grandson was declined.

She had besides pressed the lad to clarify whether helium had been adjacent to the unfortunate the full clip earlier reporting the incidental but did not supply further details, according to the outlet.