Mexican singer slain in hospital while recovering from gunshot wounds

NY Daily News Latino ^ | December 3rd 2007 | AP

[AuntB]

MEXICO CITY - A Mexican singer was shot to death in her hospital bed, police said Monday, the fourth time in a year assailants have killed performers of a popular northern music whose lyrics often focus on drug trafficking and violence.

Zayda Pena, 28, was shot in the heart Saturday in the city of Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, while recovering from a gunshot wound to the neck received on Friday, police detective Abel Infante said.

No suspects had been identified. Two people with Pena were killed in the Friday shooting.

Pena headed a band known as Zayda y los Culpables — "Zayda and the Guilty Ones." One of her songs was "Tiro de Gracia," a reference to an execution-style gunshot.

Also Monday, the newspaper El Universal reported that at least one member of the band "K-Paz de la Sierra" had been kidnapped on Saturday by armed men after leaving a performance in the western state of Michoacan.

Law enforcement authorities in Michoacan said they could not confirm that report, but the band did cancel a scheduled news conference on Monday in Mexico City. The group's publicist, Cristina Gonzalez, said she had no information on any kidnapping and attributed the cancellation to "travel reasons."

Some musicians in northern Mexico write songs called "narco corridos," which focus on the exploits of drug traffickers. Pena's songs were mostly romantic ballads.

Several "gruperos" have been slain in recent months.

On Nov. 25, 2006, Valentin Elizalde was shot to death along with his manager and driver shortly after performing across the border from McAllen, Texas. Police are investigating a possible link between Elizalde's killing and a grisly video posted online that was set to one of his songs, "To My Enemies."

Last December, Javier Morales Gomez of the band Los Implacables del Norte was shot to death in a park in Michoacan, a state plagued by drug-related gunbattles, killings and beheadings. Police have not spoken of a motive in that case.

In February, gunmen shot to death four members of the Banda Fugaz after they performed in Michoacan

[AuntB]

Also today:

2 popular Mexican singers slain http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_7631481

[jdm]

Video here:

http://bumpshack.com/2007/12/03/grupero-singer-zayda-pena-shot-to-death-by-gang-video/

[RDTF]

[BenLurkin]

Rough bunch — idolize criminals, debase the society, die violently.

Like rappers.

Civilization in North America is in great peril but the record companies see only profits.

[Tax-chick]

Oh, dear! This is sounding rather like the American rap scene, only worse.

[Army Air Corps]

Ah yes, narco corridos. Those groups make the “Gangsta Rappers” look like mama’s boys.

[RDTF]

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I guess shooting singers in hospital beds are “jobs Americans wont do”

[FreePaul]

Coming to a city near you soon thanks to our so called comprehensive immigration system. Bad enough to have the rappers killing each other.

[Redbob]

Sounds to me like someone down there is taking out the trash, those that glorify the druggie lifestyle.

Grace Slick is next...

[Red Badger]

Man, talk about a tough audience.........

[redstateconfidential]

Oh the joys of multiculturalism! Just wait till a bribe is customary in Texas, California, Nevada etc...to assure the “policios” good will in any routine traffic stop.When Latin culture is dominant all of our checks and balances will be bribes and extortion.And kidnapping!

[Red Badger]

Grace Slick is next...

Who's gonna attack a little old lady?.......

[Red Badger]

Grace Slick is next...

Who's gonna attack a little old lady?.......

[apocalypto]

Somebod must have really, really hated their singing. Or a drug deal gone bad?

[LanPB01]

Maybe Mexico has issued double 0 licenses to music critics. Kill with discretion.

[Little Ray]

No suspects had been identified.

Shot in a hospital and nobody saw nuthin'.

[ThanhPhero]

We got us a war on down there. It is already spilling over the border and we are studiously ignoring it just as hard as we can. Will MSM and the government ignore it when we get these gross automatic-weapons assassinations in Laredo? Houston? Denver? Has it already occurred in El Paso?

[petro45acp]

“Pena headed a band known as Zayda y los Culpables — “Zayda and the Guilty Ones.” One of her songs was “Tiro de Gracia,” a reference to an execution-style gunshot.”

“Tiro de Gracia” = “Coup De Grace”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_de_grace

Too bad it is just the singers getting capped, not the druggies themselves. At least these are not drive-by shootings, with innocents in the line of fire.

ruefully

[Little Ray]

Dunno. Reads like Red on Red violence to me.

[reagan_fanatic]

Aging really sucks, doesn’t it?

[SwinneySwitch]

Buscan a mexico texano por homicidio de Zayda

(Story in Spanish/graphic photos)

http://www.tamaulipasenlinea.com/newsmanager/templates/nota.aspx?articleid=23857&zoneid=3

[Red Badger]

I dunno. I haven’t aged since I was 28...............Jack Benny ain’t got nuthin’ on me!..............

[peeps36]

The murderers probably belong to one of the drug cartels that make millions of dollars a year thanks to the cowards in the US government. I have blood shooting out of my eyes every time the issue of border security comes up. We are a country that is on the decline thanks to the cowards and traitors in Washington DC.

[apocalypto]

I agree.

[azhenfud]

Was her side hobby football?

[metesky]

Aging really sucks, doesn’t it?

Compared to the alternative?

[redstateconfidential]

Wow those are graphic photos! But Geraldo gets night sweats dreaming of putting stuff like that on TV.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The murderers probably belong to one of the drug cartels that make millions of dollars a year thanks to the cowards their well-paid employees in the US government.

The War on Drugs was the greatest gift America ever gave to the criminal cartels and ambitious politicians of the world.

[exit82]

I still can’t wrap my head around getting capped in a hospital bed.And a woman no less.

Put that da%n wall up—NOW!!!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Lovely turd world country, that Mexico!

[CDHart]

I thought she was dead?

Carolyn

[wardaddy]

Grace Slick is next...

That is ridiculous....40 years ago.

[ladyjane]

And this is the wonderful culture that Jorge wants us to embrace.

[wardaddy]

just like the black and urban latino communities here...

folks willing to tolerate criminality because of fear, collusion and opportunity

and the rest of us get the blowback

[Yossarian]

One of her songs was "Tiro de Gracia," a reference to an execution-style gunshot.

Ah, yes, I remember first hearing "Tiro de Gracia" when watching the deleted scenes in my "Sound of Music Special Edition" DVD....

[Sue Perkick]

Beats the daylights out of the alternative.

[Sue Perkick]

I stopped at 39. But my mirror kept going.

[Xenalyte]

For some reason, I read "Grace Slick" as "Grace Jones." I was about to ask who the hell would mess with her!

[toddlintown]

Mexico. Such a wonderful place. Go spend all your money down there. /s

[Tax-chick]

If I’m correctly understanding the article, the police suspect she was shot by a man who was angry because Zayda was involved in a lesbian affair with a woman who used to be the man’s girlfriend.

[Tax-chick]

LOL - that’s exaclty what I was thinking. It seemed like the posts didn’t make any sense ...

[RDTF]

those are horrible pics. That woman was so beautiful.

[Travis McGee]

La Vida Loca: coming soon to an Amexican barrio near you.

(THanks to our open bordes Quislings.)

[Travis McGee]

"One of her songs was "Tiro de Gracia," a reference to an execution-style gunshot."

Ah, yes, I remember first hearing "Tiro de Gracia" when watching the deleted scenes in my "Sound of Music Special Edition" DVD....

OMG, that's funny. In a sad way.

[Revolting cat!]

I think we could easily compile a list of American, ahem, “singers”, who deserve a worse fate, not because of drugs or lesbianism but because of their “singing”.

[FrdmLvr]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fairview]

Poor lady.

Certainly seems like a great country they have down there, I can see why they want to bring Mexico up here and run this country.

[chilepepper]

she must have been a pretty bad singer...

[JZelle]

“Grace Slick is next...”

LOL. She’s pretty handy with a 12 gauge!