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He was attacked in front of Ciudad Judicial; His attacker confessed that he was going to charge such an amount of money for the crime
Guillermo Cortes
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Mexico City. – The lawyer David Cohen Sacal, linked to high-profile cases such as that of the Cruz Azul Cooperative and legal representative of figures such as Guillermo Billy Álvarez, died during the early morning after being shot in the head while walking in the vicinity of the Judicial City, in the Doctores neighborhood, mayor’s office Cuauhtemoc.
The 48-year-old lawyer was intercepted by two armed young men while he was heading to the courts on Niño Héroes Avenue. Without saying a word, the aggressor shot him directly in the head, so the victim was immediately transferred to a private hospital, where he remained in intensive care for several hours before dying.
The alleged murderer, caught by an agent of the Prosecutor’s Office, was identified as Hector Hernandezan 18-year-old young man from Mexico City, who worked as a bicycle salesman and only had incomplete high school studies.
During his initial statement, Hernández confessed that he was offered 50 thousand pesos for murdering the lawyer. According to his testimony, he was contacted by a subject nicknamed El Guffywho recruited him to commit the crime and gave him the weapon with which he carried out the attack.
The detainee claimed not to know the reason for the attack and maintained that he was only following orders. The motorcycle on which he planned to escape was found abandoned near the site of the attack; while his companion managed to escape.
The capital’s Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that the crime is being investigated as a qualified homicide and is already working to identify and capture the rest of those involved and the mastermind.
David Cohen Sacal He was a lawyer specializing in Civil Procedural Law, he served as a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana between 2000 and 2008. In addition to his relationship with the Cruz Azul case, he was also the legal representative of David Peñaloza, former president of the Tribasa Group, one of the most influential construction companies in the country in the 1990s.