Tania Mendoza, a Mexican actress, who narrowly escaped a violent kidnapping a decade ago, was murdered while waiting to pick up her 11-year-old son at a soccer academy.
On Tuesday, Tania Mendoza was with other parents outside a Cuernavaca sporting complex when two armed men on a motorcycle approached.
One of them shot her multiple times before fleeing with his buddy.
According to government statistics last year, at least ten women were killed in the country every day.
Who Shot Tania Mendoza?
The murder of Tania Mendoza, a Mexican actress and model who starred in the film.
The mere queen of the south is being examined as possible femicide in a case that has raised many doubts due to his apparent links with the deceased drug trafficker Arturo Beltrán Leyva more than a decade ago.
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According to the Morelos State Prosecutor’s Office, Tania Mendoza was slain on Wednesday afternoon in Cuernavaca, outside the Los Felinos sports club, while waiting for his son to come out of soccer practice.
The actress was shot in front of parents waiting for their children by two armed men on a motorcycle.
This isn’t the very first time the model has been attacked. In 2010, the actress filed a case against her spouse and then-six-month-old kid for aggravated vehicle theft, home robbery, and deprivation of liberty.
Is The Murderer Responsible For ‘La mere Reina del Sur’ Actress Femicide Arrested?
Mendoza’s death is still a mystery, and no motive has been established. Following the shooting, authorities started searching for the perpetrators, but no arrests were made.
According to the Efe news agency, the Attorney General’s Office would investigate the case as femicide, although no details were supplied.
According to Amnesty International, most instances go uninvestigated, and offenders are frequently unpunished.
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Who Is Tania Mendoza?
Mendoza, 42, rose to prominence after starring in the film La Mera Reyna del Sur in 2005. She’d also acted in a few soap operas, but she’d focused on her singing career in recent years, recording five albums.
In 2009, she debuted her television series in the episode “Mara, Pescadero” of Mujeres asesinas.
In 2012, she debuted her feature film in Viaje de generación, a romantic comedy.
Mendoza played a bold and daring woman who battled the cops and succeeded in taking over a drug cartel in the 2003 film ‘La mera mera reyna del sur’ (‘The Plain Queen of the South’).
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Tania Mendoza Husband And Son
Mendoza became prominent actress after starring in the 2005 film La Mera Reyna del Sur.
She is said to have only one child, an 11-year-old boy.
She was on her way to pick him up when she was shot and killed by two men on motorcycles.
Her husband and 6-month-old son were stolen from the couple’s car wash company in 2010. Since then, she had reported several death threats to the Morelos State Attorney General’s Office.