In a voice message that Alma Lourdes sent to a group of friends on the What’s App messaging service, she had explained the reasons that triggered the conflict with Hilario Beltrán, who had been going to the butcher shop where they worked for three weeks to harass his sister, until Saturday when the victim confronted him firmly, but without insults, for which she was finally killed with three shots, a femicide that has generated indignation, sadness, and rejection in Sonoran society.
My sister Ana is the one he was harassing, but regardless of who it was, I am not one to stay silent, I asked him please to respect the girls who are working because they have no interest in you, I asked him please and he she got angry”, she told her friends in a voice message that she sent in a What’s App group, minutes before she was murdered.
The conflict with Hilario Beltrán
On Saturday morning, Alma Lourdes had an argument with Hilario Beltrán, 71, who was a customer of the butcher shop owned by her family to which she went daily and in recent weeks had made insinuations to her younger sister, the altercation escalated from tone because the old man began to offend and slap the victim for which he was forced out by an employee.
“They are going to pe#$%… to get her out,” said the femicide of Alma Lourdes before her capture
Later, Hilario Beltrán returned hooded and with a .38 Super squad pistol, with which he fired three times, killing Alma Lourdes, who left behind an orphaned daughter.
Reactions and legal actions
At a press conference, the Justice prosecutor in Sonora, Gustavo Rómulo Salas Chávez, informed the relatives that they can rest easy, because despite the fact that the defendant for femicide and sexual harassment is requesting house arrest alleging senile dementia and that he is an older adult , the Public Ministry will request the maximum penalty and that he remain locked up in jail because he is obviously a danger to society.
“It was not a crime of passion, it is a femicide of a stalker man”: sister of Alma Lourdes
Next Friday, hundreds of women will march through the streets of Ciudad Obregón, head of Cajeme, considered one of the most violent municipalities in the country, where dozens of crimes against women have occurred this year, such as murders and disappearances.
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