Death of Angelina Yamori López

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Death of Angelina Yamori López
The Missing Girl.jpg
Last photo known of Yamori, April 27th, 2022.
Born12 March 2004
Santa Elisa, Anáhuac, Anáhuac
DiedSometime between the 27th of April and 11th of May of 2022
Santa Elisa, Canatlán, Anáhuac
Cause of death
Body discovered11 May 2022
Resting placePantéon Valle de la Paz
NationalityAnahuense
OccupationStudent
Parent(s)
  • Azucena López (mother)
  • Yūsuke Yamorri Parra (father)
RelativesSoichiro Yamori López (brother)

Angelina Yamori López was a eighteen-year-old Anahuense woman who disappeared, and fourteen days later, on May 11, was found dead in a cistern in a motel in General Castillejos, in the Santa Elisa metropolitan area.[1][2] The death of Angelina has caused commotion in Anáhuac after the viralization on social media of a photo of Angelina in the middle of a road[3]. The case, investigated by the Anáhuac prosecutor's office as an accidental death, required the backing of national agencies such as the Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI) and the Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional (CISEN), with the Hoterallian Crminal Investigation Bureau of the National Police Agency joining later on.[4][5][6]However, the accidental death theory was disown by parent Yūsuke Yamori and several feminist sectors, who catalogue the death of Yamori as a femicide, fearing a crisis of missing women.[7] A case as the one of Angelina hasn't been mediatic since the case of Mariana Rodríguez. [8]

Background

Angelina Yamori López (born Santa Elisa, Anáhuac, 12 March 2004 – 10 May 2022) was the first-born daughter to Horkoshian-descedant Yūsuke Yamori Parra and Azucena López. She had a brother, Soichiro (born 7 September 2012) and at the time of her death, she was eighteen years old and studied on the Faculty of Law and Criminology at the Autonomous University of Santa Elisa (UASE). [9]

Chronology

Angelina's disappearance

On the night of April 26th, 2022, Angelina Yamori went with a group of friends whom she had recently met during her career at the Law and Criminology Faculty, Regina Santos, and Karla Villafuerte to a party in the Quinta Los Tres Reyes estate located in General Castillejos, Anáhuac. At 01:20 the following day, (April 27) Angelina and some of her friends left the party, but after an argument, her friends took a ride of their own and gave Angelina a "trusted contact" of a driver who uses their car with the MAAS app and he took her home, via a transfer off that platform. Esteban Cuellár, the driver picked her up, claimed that Angelina moved into the front seat after asking for a charger for her phone before insisting on getting out of the car. Esteban lowered her, claiming that she was aggressive at the time, even slapping him. He left her in an unpopulated area at 04:25 a.m. on kilometer 15.5 of the Vía Numancia and Vía a Santa Fe highway in the Real Canteriana neighborhood, taking the last known photograph of the victim. [10] There are clues that at 04:30 she asked for help at Tridente transportation offices, with a guard leaving directions to the nearby motel, ordering her to call her friends back in the safe space. Later, security cameras record her walking towards the Real Canteriana Motel. [11]

Her father, Yūsuke Yamori Parra, reported his daughter's disappearance to the Anáhuac State Attorney General's Office nearly 48 hours after his daughter dissapeared. [12] The missing person report for Angelina began to be shared on social networks and in the media followed a photograph of her alone on the desolated spot at the Santa Elisa-Santa Fe highway.

Search of her whereabouts and false statements

Missing poster of Angelina Yamori López, issued on April 29th

Following the initial report of Yūsuke Yamori, the Comisión Nacional de Personas Desaparecidas, joined the investigation alongside elements of the Departamento de Polícia de Santa Elisa. During the search, five missing teenagers were located around different areas of General Castillejos. [13] On April 30, Compostela de Ángeles II, head of the Local Search Commission of Anáhuac, announced at a press conference the creation of an emergency committee to search for Angelina. The next day, about 200 police officers are ready to search for the young woman. On May 2nd, the arrest of the Esteban Cuellár, the driver who picked her up and left her on the highway was reported. According to the FGEA, finding no elements of guilt and providing the photograph and a detailed testimony, they released him. That day Yamori's family called his family, friends and society to a massive search in the vicinity of the place where she disappeared.

On May 4th, Regina and Karla were called to the FGEA to give their witness account in hopes of narrowing her search.[14] On May 7th, some 30 videos from businesses and places surrounding the site of the disappearance were collected and analyzed. The investigations extend to neighboring states. Authorities reported that there were people giving false clues to the whereabouts of the victim. On May 10th, different businesses around the site of Angelina's disappearance were searched by order of a judge, including the Tridente company and a motel, Real Canteriana; also, an apartment in the center of Santa Elisa. Angelina's family remained in place aware of the results, holds a collective prayer on the road and undertakes a new search for the victim accompanied by friends, relatives and feminist groups. Such people delve into wells and cisterns for miles around. [15]

Discovery of her body and autopsy

On May 11, Yūsuke Yamori authorizes the addition of a cell from the National Search Commission to the investigative work. On the night of that day, they find a body inside a four meter deep cistern at the Real Canteriana motel after complains of the water smell and taste on the regular rooms. The clothes on the body found matched Angelina's. Reports of a second body, found in the same cistern, were confirmed as the day progressed. On May 12, the proceedings confirm that it is Angelina's body. The second body was identified as Susana Kensington, a call girl that was reported missing in 2019. [16][17]

The FGJEA determines that the cause of the victim's death was "deep skull contusion". The authorities acknowledge that the cistern where Angelina was found had already been investigated four times, without success, with the presence of various state authorities and Angelina's family, who disqualify the official version. According to the FGJEA, the site was investigated again, when motel employees detected gas emanation from the cistern, attributing not finding it earlier to a "massive human failure».

Aftermath

On May 21, the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the National Police Agency from Hoterallia joined the investigation,[18] after the FGJEA pledged for additional backing for national or foreign agencies. On May 25, feminist individuals and groups protested in San Jorge Xayacatlán, leading two marches: one from the Parque de Quetzalpeque to the Ángel de los Caídos, and another from the Monument for the Revolution to the offices of the Attorney General of Justice of San Jorge, where relatives of women victims of femicide and disappearance added their claims. However, the march was tainted when female protestors beat to death male bystanders and supporters, causing one fatality. Federal Police memebers would later add that the main motivation for the beatings were for misandristic mindsets in the protestors. [19]

On May 31st, Angelina's body was buried at the Pantéon Valle de la Paz in Santa Cecilia, Anáhuac. [20] The funeral procession was headed by Yūsuke Yamori and was attended by family, friends and students of her career and selected feminist groups.

Controversies

Autopsy leak

On June 9, 2022, classified documents and videos of the AFI autopsy of Angelina Yamori López were leaked on the forum Canterchan by a anonymous source. The action prompted an emergency meeting at the headquarters of the AFI in Santa Elisa, disregarding a expected meeting that was supposed to touch on the progress of the case. The details of the autopsy confirmed the accident theory by adding that Angelina Yamori, based upon witnesses and toxicological tests, that she felled to the cistern after being on an alcoholic psychosis. Water, while minimal, was found on her lungs at the time of her recovery. [21] [22] Following this leak and despite the sheer amount of evidence, feminsit groups, alongside Yūsuke Yamori disowned the autopsy, insisting that Angelina was murdered and should be continued to be catalogued as a femicide. [23]

Three days later, Yūsuke Yamori Parra said he was fed up with so much impunity and incompetence on the part of all agencies and demanded that if they couldn't seek justice that they present their resignation. Despite this, on June 18, the case was partly closed citing the lack of new evidence for the moment; however, Fasci and the AFI promised that new progress was expected to be made, with the case to be fully closed by September or October.[24]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Father of Angelina Yamori confirms her death at the Real Canteriana Motel. Noticias Imevisión. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  2. ↑ 7 intrigas que nos ha dejado el caso de Angelina Yamori: la adolescente hallada muerta en una cisterna en Santa Elisa.. El Norte. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  3. ↑ Medrano, Jorge (2022-05-01). "Filtrada última foto de Angelina Yamori tras su desparición" [Filtered last photo of Angelina Yamori after her disappearance]. La Red de Anteria (in español). Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  4. ↑ The National Police Agency's Criminal Investigation Bureau Sending Officers To Help Solve The Angelina's Case. The Hojo Daily. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  5. ↑ La Agencia Federal de Investigación se suma a la investigación del caso Yamori. Imagen 5. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  6. ↑ Rodríguez de León, Osmar (2022-05-17). "El presidente Matías Torres autoriza la asistencia de la ala de criminología del CISEN en el caso Yamori" [President Matías Torres authorizes the assistance of the CISEN criminology wing in the Yamori case]. TV Xalieca (in español). Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  7. ↑ Yūsuke Yamori and feminist groups disown autopsy results. Claim that the government is hiding the truth. Imagen 5. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  8. ↑ Caso Yamori: ¿por que muchos lo consideran el nuevo caso Rodríguez?. Vlog del Vago. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  9. ↑ Padre describe a Angelina Yamori como una estudiante excelente y una hija maravillosa. "Ella no podría haber tomado". La Verdad de Republia. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  10. ↑ Chronology of the Yamori case. The Portington Postal. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  11. ↑ CCTV footage shows the route that Angelina Yamori followed before she dissapeared. Noticias Imevisión. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  12. ↑ Cronología del caso Yamori. Dos Soles. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  13. ↑ Authorities located five missing teenagers during the search of Angelina Yamori: all are alive. Postal de Sekapa. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  14. ↑ Bajo la lupa las declaraciones de las amigas de Angelina. Noticias Imevisión. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  15. ↑ Bazana Amézquita, Abigail (2022-05-09). "Continua la búsqueda de Angelina Yamori. Expresan frustración ante inacción de la Fiscalía" [The search for Angelina Yamori continues. They express frustration at the inaction of the Prosecutor's Office.]. Foro TV (in español). Retrieved 2022-06-18.
  16. ↑ Two bodies found in Santa Elisa. Noticias Imevisión. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  17. ↑ El segundo cuerpo de la Real Canteriana había sido reportada como desaparecida desde el 2019. Los Tiempos de Los Canas. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  18. ↑ The National Police Agency's Criminal Investigation Bureau Sending Officers To Help Solve The Angelina's Case. The Hojo Daily. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  19. ↑ Mujeres rugidoenses marchan contra el aparente feminicidio de Angelina Yamori. Termina con hombres siendo golpeados por contingente radical. Noticias Imevisión. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  20. ↑ Dan último adios a Angelina Yamori en Santa Cecilia.. Noticias Imevisión. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  21. ↑ Filtración de datos en la AFI provoca sesión de emergencia. Noticias Imevisión. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  22. ↑ Indíce de Reporte N°14018, Yamori, A. (PDF). Agencia Federal de Investigación. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  23. ↑ Colectivos feministas y el padre de Yamori desconocerán los resultados de la autopsia filtradaLas Tres Líneas. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  24. ↑ Yūsuke Yamori pide la renuncia de funcionarios y penas para los filtradores en la AFI. Noticias Imagen 5. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
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