By Abimbola Ogunnaike
A 20 year-old man is currently cooling-off in one of the cells for allegedly stabbing to death two women at a university in the western Mexico city of Guadalajara on Wednesday, 6 March, 2024.
A prosecutor in Jalisco State, Luis Joaquin Mendez, confirmed the arrest of the attacker, disclosing that the man burst onto the campus of Centro Universitario UTEG carrying a knife and a hatchet, which he used to smash several windows.
“There was no reason, no apparent motive,” for the attack, said the prosecutor, adding that the attacker’s “aggression was directed against the first people he saw,” Mendez said, adding that police have arrested the attacker.
Mendez also added that investigation has commenced on the attacker’s links to another woman who was found dead in a hotel on the same day.
According to official figures in the country, no fewer than 852 cases of femicide were recorded last year in the violence-plagued country.
