Who killed Édgar Guzmán López?… the mysterious death of the son of ‘El Chapo’ who was murdered with 500 bullets 15 years ago

On May 10, 2008, the municipality of Culiacán ran out of roses to celebrate the mothers of Sinaloa. Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán , left them without flowers because they were used for his son’s funeral From him Édgar Guzmán López , killed by 500 shots two days before in a shopping center.

But, would this gesture be for having caused the death of his own son?

One of the thoughts that torment the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, could not be those tortures that he claims to undergo in prison, but how his instinct for revenge could have led him to execute one of his children by mistake, in one of the most dangerous chapters. violence in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa.

On May 8, 2008, a hail of bullets covered the city of Culiacán, in Sinaloa, a command killed three young people who were in a shopping center, known as City Market, where they had gone to buy groceries.

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Local chronicles point out that more than 500 shots were fired at the scene and a bazooka was also used. The name of one of the young men executed aroused the worst fears of the citizens, who voluntarily decided to maintain a kind of curfew for days in which no one left their home.

One of those executed was Édgar Guzmán López , son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. The young man was accompanied by his cousin, César Ariel Loera and Arturo Meza Cázares , son of Blanca Margarita Cázares , alias “La empressa”, who also died in the attack.

But another version of the murder of Édgar Guzmán pointed out that it was the same assassins of Chapo who murdered the son of the capo due to a mix-up.

That night, the men at the service of the Sinaloa Cartel would have confused the red van in which Édgar Guzmán was traveling with one of Arturo Beltrán Leyva’s cars , El Barbas . Supposedly, after they reported what had happened to their superiors, they gave them the go-ahead to fire up the vehicle in which one of the Beltrán Leyva men was traveling.

The shooting was reportedly carried out by a cell that obeyed the orders of Gonzalo Inzunza, alias El Macho Prieto , chief of hit men at the service of Ismael El Mayo Zambada.

The third version indicated that El Chapo had asked his compadre to take care of a young man nicknamed El Guacho, but the hitmen had made a mistake and confused Guzmán López with their objective.

Édgar Guzmán was the son of El Chapo and his second wife, Griselda López Pérez. He was also the older brother of Ovidio Guzmán, who is being held in the Altiplano prison.

50 thousand roses for Édgar Guzmán

After the death of Édgar Guzmán , the sadness of “El Chapo” was so great that he ordered to buy all the roses in Culiacán for the burial, consolidating this act as a historical fact.

It is said that the act of the kingpin left vendors with no time to restock flowers for Mother’s Day. After the event, a corrido was born performed by the singer Lupillo Rivera , called 50 thousand roses.

“50,000 red roses were sold in Culiacán, arriving on May 10 ready to celebrate, but a few days before Édgar Guzmán left us (…) The pile of roses was not sent to any mother, they were all for a man they always respected” , part of the lyrics of the corrido.

Griselda López Pérez , mother of Édgar Guzmán , surprised and reluctant at the news, assured that it was not the young man’s fault that he was the son of the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel .

The ex-wife of the drug trafficker said she was “tired as a mother of having her children pointed out as drug traffickers. I have lost a son to the wars they provoked.”