The sad goodbye to Los Chuparrecios: family and friends fired musicians killed and burned in Celaya

With deep pain, family and friends of the eight members of the music group Los Chuparrecio who were found burned on Tuesday night the 22nd in the community of San José el Nuevo, Celaya, they approached the community of Juan Martín to give them the last goodbye.

The remains of brothers José Juan, Francisco Javier and Luis Miguel were veiled at their parents' house, located on Plan de San Luis street. In the opposite home, Mr. Armando was also veiled, who had dedicated most of his life to music. On Francisco Villa Street, at the same time Javier Pérez, 51, and his son Francisco Javier, 21, were fired at the same time.

About fifty meters away, in another house in the community, the presence of several minors stood out. There they fired Juan Diego Pérez Maldonado, a 15-year-old teenager who was barely studying the second semester of high school. He had accompanied the musicians as their assistant, something that according to their relatives almost didn't happen.

“He was a very cheerful boy, very friendly. He liked jaripeos very much, he liked to go to school, to the gym, to play football, he had many friends. He was always invited and he never wanted to go. This time I don't know why he was encouraged to go. He never said he wanted to be a musician, he just went to help them and look how they returned him to us,” his sister told the newspaper Correo.

They were all fired by their loved ones to the rhythm of a repertoire of songs of regional Mexican music, with their coffins adorned with floral arrangements and photographs of them alive.

Between Friday night and early Saturday morning, the Attorney General's Office of (FGE) Guanajuato handed over the bodies of the seven musicians who were found burned and another member of the staff.

On the morning of March 25, the Guanajuato prosecutor, Carlos Zamarripa, said that so far there is no line of investigation into the massacre. Five days ago, Los Chupacierro traveled from the town of Juan Martín to San José to give a concert. The last time they were seen was at 3:00 p.m.

Since then, nothing has been heard from them again. Their relatives indicated that they were hired to attend an event in a nearby community that afternoon. They went there from three in the afternoon and were due to return around nine in the evening. The last contact they had with their loved ones was at 3:45 p.m.

Celaya authorities received the report on Tuesday night, March 22, of a van burning in the community of San José el Nuevo to Rincón de Tamayo, located south of Celaya. When they arrived, shortly after 11:00 at night, and after putting out the fire, firefighters and policemen discovered that there were seven burned bodies in the punt of a van.

The executive secretary of the State Public Security System of the state, Sophia Huett López, reported that the van had a license plate of the state Michoacán and had a report of theft in that entity.

This Sunday, March 27, around 2:30 p.m., there will be a mass of body present with all the victims of the massacre in the temple of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the community of Juan Martín. Subsequently, the burial of the corpses will take place in the pantheon of the community of Jofre.