Moment suspects linked to the murder of three aspiring doctors are rearrested

The three suspects linked to the brutal killings of three medical students last weekend were rearrested Thursday afternoon just moments after a east-central Mexico judge set them free on different charges.

Authorities also revealed a possible motive behind the killings: the theft of a hat worn by one of the victims, Colombian student Ximena Quijano, 25. She was killed alongside fellow Colombian foreign exchange student José Antonio Parada, 22; Francisco Javier Tirado, 22, a native Mexican student; and the group’s Uber driver, José Manuel Vital, 28.

Pablo Jesús Juarez, 46; Angel Juarez, 23; and Lisset Ramírez, 22, were initially arrested Monday on charges of impersonating a law enforcement official after they were reportedly found in a BMW SUV with police strobe lights and wearing bulletproof vests that can only be assigned to the police.

The three individuals told the police that they allegedly wore the vests out of concerns for their safety.

Judge David Rodríguez ruled Angel Juarez and Ramírez were not inside the BMW SUV and set them free. Although Jesús Juarez was inside the vehicle, the judge allowed him to walk out of the San Andrés Cholula Court after ruling that he had not committed a serious crime.

But video footage shows the moment when police officers intercepted the trio outside of court, this time charging them with vehicular theft and the murders of Quijano, Parada, Tirado and Vital. 

Authorities discovered the bodies of the three aspiring students and their taxi driver Monday morning in Huejotzingo, a municipality in the state of Puebla, where they attended a festival a day earlier. 

Pablo Jesús Juarez was arrested outside a courthouse in Puebla, Mexico, and charged with vehicular theft and homicide by the police on Thursday. The arrest came after a judge allowed him to walk free after he was originally charged him with impersonating a police officer

Angel Juarez and Lisset Ramírez review an arrest warrant while a police officer reads them their rights moments after they were rearrested in connection with the brutal murder of four people, including three medical students, in Puebla, Mexico, last weekend

Angel Juarez and Lisset Ramírez review an arrest warrant while a police officer reads them their rights moments after they were rearrested in connection with the brutal murder of four people, including three medical students, in Puebla, Mexico, last weekend

Ximena Quijano, a Colombian medical student, was one of four people killed on Sunday after she and two other students attended a festival in Huejotzingo, Mexico. Prosecutors said she was allegedly killed after a dispute with one of the suspects who attempted to steal the hat she is pictured wearing in the above photograph

Ximena Quijano, a Colombian medical student, was one of four people killed on Sunday after she and two other students attended a festival in Huejotzingo, Mexico. Prosecutors said she was allegedly killed after a dispute with one of the suspects who attempted to steal the hat she is pictured wearing in the above photograph

Quijano’s father, Jorge Quijano, questioned the prosecutor office’s theory that his daughter’s hat may have triggered her shooting death in an interview with W Radio in Colombia.

‘It is something that is being published and is being said,’ Jorge Quijano said. ‘There was an incident with the hat, but there was no quarrel, there was no exchange of words. The girl simply lost her hat and her friend found it and this person who is (detained) had it. But I don’t know. I need to wait for the final result of the investigation’.

Surveillance footage released earlier this week showed the moment the three students placed their belongings in the Uber ride before they were killed. 

Mexican authorities located the bodies of José Antonio Parada and three other people on a grass field near a dirt road in the neighborhood of Santa Ana Xalmimilulco on Monday morning

Uber driver José Manuel Vita was identified by the Puebla State Attorney General's office as one of the four victims in Sunday's execution

Colombian student José Antonio Parada left, and Uber driver José Manuel Vita were among the four people whose bodies were dumped on a grass field near a dirt road in the neighborhood of Santa Ana Xalmimilulco on Monday morning, a day after they were killed

Francisco Javier Tirado was one of the three aspiring doctors whose life was cut short Sunday in Mexico when they were killed moments after attending a local festival

Francisco Javier Tirado was one of the three aspiring doctors whose life was cut short Sunday in Mexico when they were killed moments after attending a local festival 

The students’ bodies were found near a dirt road in the Huejotzingo neighborhood of Santa Ana Xalmimilulco.

According to police reports, cops searched three homes related to the suspects and located Quijano’s hat and sunglasses, a backpack belonging to one of the male students and Vital’s vehicle as well as other personal documents belonging to the four victims.

Police also discovered blood stains, traces of a human brain and cellphones in the BMW, which was impacted by bullets.

The hat belonging to Ximena Quijano was located in one of three homes searched by the police

Investigators also discovered sunglasses belonging to Ximena Quijano at a residence that was searched

Police say they uncovered Quijano’s hat, left, and her sunglasses during a search of the suspects’ homes

José Manuel Vita's voter card

José Manuel Vita Uber vehicle

Investigators in Puebla, Mexico, found José Manuel Vita’s voter registration identification card and his vehicle at one of the houses that the police searched Tuesday, a day her and three students were brutally murdered 

The lifeless body of Ximena Quijano was found on an empty lot lying on top of one of the other three males who were executed in the east-central Mexican state of Puebla

The lifeless body of Ximena Quijano was found on an empty lot lying on top of one of the other three males who were executed in the east-central Mexican state of Puebla

Area residents made the gruesome discovery and contacted the police at approximately 10:20am Monday.

Parada and Quijano, who had been in Mexico since August, and Tirado were all interns at Cholula General Hospital in the Puebla municipality of Tlaxcalancingo.

The Colombian students were participating in a foreign exchange program at the Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla. Tirado was a medical student at the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla.

Surveillance camera captures the last moments of Ximena Quijano (right) and fellow medical students José Antonio Parada and Francisco Javier Tirado. They ordered an Uber on Sunday night and were later murdered

Surveillance camera captures the last moments of Ximena Quijano (right) and fellow medical students José Antonio Parada and Francisco Javier Tirado. They ordered an Uber on Sunday night and were later murdered

Pictured above are two of the three men, who along with a Colombian female medical student, were assassinated Sunday in Mexico

Pictured above are two of the three men, who along with a Colombian female medical student, were assassinated Sunday in Mexico

Medical examiners remove one of the four lifeless bodies that were located Monday morning

Medical examiners remove one of the four lifeless bodies that were located Monday morning

The three future doctors had just finished enjoying the Huejotzingo Carnival on Sunday night when they solicited an Uber ride at 10:15pm, according to the Puebla State Attorney General’s office. 

Angélica Cerpa, Parada’s mother, told Colombian news magazine Semana that she last spoke to her son at 9:31pm. 

‘He told me that he was at a friend’s house and that he was going to take an Uber, they were going to go to Puebla,’ Cerpa said. ‘I was following his cellphone’s GPS and they never left the sector. I was dialing him, but he didn’t answer’.

In a statement, the Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla said that it ‘expresses its profound indignation and concern over the escalation in crime and violence in our state and our country which condemns families to live in a constant state of fear and uncertainty’. 

As part of the investigation into the assassination of three aspiring doctors and their Uber driver, authorities searched three homes on Tuesday in the Puebla municipality of Huejotzingo

As part of the investigation into the assassination of three aspiring doctors and their Uber driver, authorities searched three homes on Tuesday in the Puebla municipality of Huejotzingo

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