A 21-year-old singer was allegedly killed by her elderly husband in a restaurant after trying to divorce him for months. Yrma Lydya, 21, was shot by Jesus Hernandez, 79, inside a private room at a Japanese restaurant in Mexico City, cops say.
The folk artist, Lydya, was eating at the venue in the Benito Juarez neighborhood when she was killed last Thursday, June 23.
What is known up until this moment is that Hernandez shot his young wife three times in the chest.
The killing came after Lydya contacted a law firm in April this year about starting divorce proceedings. She showed pictures of her bruised face from a number of domestic violence incidents as evidence, the Mexican newspaper Excelsior reported.
Lydya had also filed a police report in December claiming her husband had beaten her and threatened her with a gun on another occasion.
Mexico City security chief Omar Garcia Harfuch said Hernandez had met with two people at the restaurant at 2 p.m. last Thursday, before leaving at around 6 p.m., reports Milenio news network.
Lydya later arrived at the restaurant and it’s alleged that gunfire rang through the eatery after she and her husband started to argue. A police officer who was at the restaurant rushed to the private room and restrained Hernandez, a witness told the news program Primer Impacto.
Harfuch confirmed that the singer died after sustaining three shots to her chest during the row.
Hernandez and his bodyguard appeared in court Sunday and are being held in pretrial detention at a Mexico City prison as cops continue to investigate. The lawyer pleaded not guilty and insisted he did not kill Lydya.
