A chilling piece of surveillance footage has emerged in the investigation into the murder of Jonathan Samuel Meléndez Ochoa, keyboardist and producer for the Mexican rock band Camilo Séptimo. Meléndez, his pregnant wife Ana Paola, 35, their 3-year-old daughter, and a 21-year-old domestic worker were all found dead on Tuesday, September 1, inside their home at the Grand Viure residential complex in Atizapán de Zaragoza, a municipality in México State just outside Mexico City.
The 24-second clip, recorded inside the building’s elevator, began circulating widely on social media as authorities pieced together the timeline of the attack. It shows a man identified by investigators only as Diego Sebastián “N,” the main suspect in the case, entering the elevator at 5:24 p.m. on the day of the killings. At one point, he turns his head toward the security camera and stares directly into it for several seconds, his expression blank, before continuing on to the floor where the family lived.
Mexican authorities have named Diego Sebastián as the alleged perpetrator of the quadruple homicide, though the motive behind the attack has not yet been made public. The case has drawn national attention given Meléndez’s prominence in Mexico’s rock scene and the brutality of the crime, which claimed the lives of an entire family along with their employee.
To see the surveillance footage and follow ongoing developments in the case, read the full story at El Tiempo.
Source: Aparece video clave en el asesinato del músico Jonathan Meléndez: captó al sospechoso en el lugar del crimen (eltiempo.com). English version produced with AI assistance.
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