Former beauty queen Carolina Flores Gomez, a 27-year-old young mother from Baja California, was found dead with a gunshot wound inside her apartment in Mexico City's upscale Polanco neighborhood, in a killing that authorities are now investigating under the femicide protocol after public outrage over the case's initial handling.
What has turned the case into a national flashpoint is not only the brutality of the killing, but the family account that followed. Carolina's mother, Reyna Gomez Molina, told Univision's Siéntese Quien Pueda that she learned of her daughter's death through a phone call from her romantic partner and father of her 8-month-old child, who allegedly told her, "No, ma'am, I'm at the prosecutor's office and they're calling me. It's that my mom shot her."
