May 2015 Rio Bravo lynching

May 2015 Rio Bravo lynching

Guatemala Lynching 2015

Guatemala Lynching 2015
Date May 2015
Location Río Bravo, Suchitepéquez, Guatemala
Charges No charges
Verdict No verdict

A sixteen-year-old teenage girl was burned to death in Río Bravo, Suchitepéquez in May 2015 by a vigilante mob after being accused by some of involvement in the killing of a taxi driver earlier in the month.

Lynching

A crowd of at least one hundred people watched as she walked around the burning and rolled on the ground crying for help. No one intervened to save the girl from the beating or to extinguish the fire. The girl lays on a main street in town and when the fire began dying out, an unidentified male ran out of the crowd and doused her body with fuel and her body was engulfed in flames.[1]

Motivation for the attack

While the attack was in retaliation for the girls involved in the robbery and murder of a local taxi driver assumptions, with two male accomplises away, without a trial, it is unknown whether she was involved or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time place and it happened to be near the two male individuals who fled the scene.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Young girl is brutally beaten, lynched and set on fire while still alive *Very Graphic*". LiveLeak. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Annie Rose Ramos, Catherine E. Shoichet and Richard Beltran, CNN (27 May 2015). "Video of mob burning teen in Guatemala spurs outrage". CNN.
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