Opinion ID: 4391884
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Heading: Jacobo Carrillo’s Murder

Text: On January 30, 2015, Rosa Lorena Jacobo Carrillo was shot and killed outside her mother’s home in Mexico City. Until some point in the last year of her life, Jacobo Carrillo had been involved in a long-term extramarital relationship with Burgos Noeller. When the relationship ended, Burgos Noeller and Jacobo Carrillo already had two young children together. No. 18-2723 3 According to statements submitted by Jacobo Carrillo’s family, on the night of her murder, Burgos Noeller called her, accused her of seeing someone else, and threatened her life. The statements from Jacobo Carrillo’s family also asserted that later that evening, Burgos Noeller came to her mother’s house, where he slapped and grabbed Jacobo Carrillo before shooting her twice in the head. Burgos Noeller denies involvement in Jacobo Carrillo’s murder. He maintains that he ended the relationship with her after he found out about her family’s aﬃliation with the Los Pepes gang and Zetas drug cartel. He says that on the morning after the murder, he received two calls from Jacobo Carrillo’s cousin warning him that Jacobo Carrillo’s mother wanted to blame him for the murder and that she had hired hitmen to kill him. 1 Burgos Noeller asserts that after the calls, he ﬂed Mexico for the United States with his wife and their two children. Several of his family members provided aﬃdavits describing incidents after he left Mexico in which members of Los Pepes came to their homes looking for Burgos Noeller, threatened them, beat them, and damaged their property.