Long before a petty traffic dispute turned Higinio Sobera de la Flor into a national nightmare, warnings had gathered around the wealthy young heir.
Despite frightening hotel employees by “rehearsing” homicides and surviving an earlier arrest warrant, he continued driving through Mexico City with access to a firearm. Doctors had questioned his worsening mental state, yet his family allowed him to remain free.
Then a minor collision escalated into an exchange of insults. One word reached back to a humiliation Sobera had carried since childhood:
