CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — A
20-year-old state beauty
queen died in a gun battle between soldiers and the alleged gang of drug traffickers she
was traveling with in a scene befitting the hit movie "Miss Bala," or "Miss
Bullet," about Mexico's not uncommon ties between narcos and beautiful pageant contestants.
The body of Maria Susana Flores Gamez was
found Saturday lying near an assault rifle on a rural road in a mountainous area
of the drug-plagued state
of Sinaloa, the chief state prosecutor said Monday. It was unclear if she
had used the weapon.
"She was with the gang of criminals, but we
cannot say whether she participated in the shootout," state prosecutor Marco Antonio Higuera
said. "That's what we're going to have to investigate."
The slender, 5-foot-7-inch brunette was
voted the 2012 Woman of Sinaloa in a beauty pageant in February. In
June, the model competed with other seven contestants for the more prestigious
state beauty contest, Our Beauty Sinaloa, but didn't win. The Our Beauty state
winners compete for the Miss Mexico title, whose holder represents the country
in the international Miss Universe.
Higuera said Flores Gamez was traveling in one of the
vehicles that engaged soldiers in an hours-long chase and running gun battle on
Saturday near her native city of Guamuchil in the state of Sinaloa, home to
Mexico's most powerful drug cartel. Higuera said two other members of the drug
gang were killed and four were detained.
The shootout began when the gunmen opened
fire on a Mexican army patrol. Soldiers gave chase and cornered the gang at a
safe house in the town of Mocorito. The other men escaped, and the gunbattle
continued along a nearby roadway, where the gang's vehicles were eventually
stopped. Six vehicles, drugs and weapons were seized following the
confrontation.
It was at least the third instance in which
a beauty queen or pageant contestants have been linked to Mexico's violent drug
gangs, a theme so common it was the subject of a critically acclaimed 2011
movie.
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Wasn't there a son about "the homecoming queen has got a gun" in the 80's? It was that redheaded girl from mtv when it first started, the one with the boobs.
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Sheesh, dudes....
That chick was bad to the bone. My kinda girl.
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