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May 2015 Rio Bravo lynching

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Charges
  
No charges

Date
  
May 2015

Verdict
  
No verdict

A sixteen-year-old teenage girl is burning and rolling on the ground crying for help in Río Bravo, Suchitepéquez in May 2015

Location
  
Río Bravo, Suchitepéquez, Guatemala

Similar
  
Facundo Cabral, Oliverio Castañeda, Manuel Colom Argueta

A sixteen-year-old teenage girl was burned to death in Río Bravo, Suchitepéquez in May 2015 by a vigilante mob after being accused by some of involvement in the killing of a taxi driver earlier in the month.

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A crowd of at least one hundred people watched as she walked around burning and rolled on the ground crying for help. No one intervened to save the girl from the beating or to extinguish the fire. The girl lay on a main street in town and when the fire began dying out, an unidentified male ran out of the crowd and doused her body with fuel and her body was again engulfed in flames.

Motivation for the attack

The attack was in retaliation for the girl's alleged involvement in the robbery and murder of a local taxi driver. Unidentified Rio Bravo residents claimed she and two other men killed Carlos Enrique González Noriega, 68, moto taxi driver. The two male accomplices escaped. It is unknown whether she was involved or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A male ran out of the crowd and doused the body of a sixteen-year-old teenage girl with fuel in Río Bravo, Suchitepéquez in May 2015

References

May 2015 Rio Bravo lynching Wikipedia


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