Grupera Singer Deaths

Over the past few years several Grupera Singers from Mexico have been murdered. The most recent victims are Zayda Pena, Sergio Gomez and Jose Aquino.

• Google News: Grupera Singer Deaths
• BuzzFeed: The Mexican Country Singer Killings
• Time: "Who Is Killing Mexico's Musicians?" (December 24, 2007)
• Los Angeles Times: "2 more grupera singers slain in Mexico" (December 4, 2007)
  • Officials have found the strangled body of Sergio Gomez, who had been kidnapped in the southern Mexican state of Michoacan late Saturday and was missing for two days.

• Reuters: Singer strangled to death in Mexico (December 4, 2007)

• WOAI San Antonio: 2 Popular Mexican Singers Killed (December 4, 2007)

• Houston Chronicle: "Singer shot in Mexico ER new victim of drug war" (December 4, 2007)
  • Zayda Pena was shot and killed in her hospital bed while she recovered from a prior gunshot wound that had required emergency surgery.

• NotiEmail News: Hitman kills Mexican singer in hospital after earlier attack (December 4, 2007)