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Mexican teen arrested after allegedly walking down the street with his sister’s head: report

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Yaron Steinbuch
Published Jan. 2, 2024, 7:21 a.m. ET
Mexican teen arrested after allegedly walking down the street with his sister’s head: report
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A rifle-toting 19-year-old man has reportedly been arrested in Mexico after allegedly being seen walking down a street holding his sister’s decapitated head.

Horrified onlookers called Michoacán State Police after spotting the suspect, identified only as Sebastián, holding his 26-year-old sister Julieta’s head near a clinic in Quiroga on Saturday, local news outlet AM reported.

Officers arrested the apparently intoxicated man without incident and confiscated the rifle he was carrying, according to the report, which cited the state prosecutor’s office.

They found his sister’s naked corpse lying at a gas station several hundred feet away.

Authorities were investigating a possible motive for the gruesome crime.

No information was immediately available about what charges the suspect faces while he is being held by the Michoacán state prosecutor’s office.

Mexican man who allegedly decapitated his sister
Police in Mexico have arrested a 19-year-old man who was allegedly seen walking with his sister’s decapitated head before her naked body was found nearby.
Julieta, alleged decapitation victim
A Mexican woman identified as Julieta was allegedly decapitated by her brother. Vocero Veraz / Facebook
The woman's naked corpse was found on the ground at a gas station.
The woman’s naked corpse was found at a gas station. Vocero Veraz / Facebook
The crime scene in the municipality of Quiroga.
The crime scene in the municipality of Quiroga. Vocero Veraz / Facebook

The alleged feminicide was reminiscent of another incident in Mexico in which Lev Norman was arrested for allegedly carrying the head of Lucero Yazmin Hidalgo in a backpack in October 2022.