Sergio Gómez was kidnapped. Police found his body the next day. He'd been strangled and beaten. the savage murder of Sergio Gómez, one of Mexico's hottest singers, a headliner whose band, K-Paz de la Sierra, commanded $100,000 a show, twice the rate of other top bands was different. It has set off an unprecedented chain reaction in which at least half a dozen bands have canceled concert tours. Popular bands, such as the Duranguense act Patrulla 81, which backed out of four major shows, are terrified of coming to Morelia and the surrounding state of Michoacan.Gomez was killed hours after another singer, Zayda Pena, was killed in the border city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas state.
Pena, 28, was shot by an unknown assailant in hospital where she was recovering from a previous gunshot wound. The motive behind her murder is also unknown.Several of the murders of musicians over the past year are believed to be tied to organised crime and drug-trafficking. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Mexico this year as drug cartels battle for territory and drug routes.
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