'Skinny girl' assassin killed, stuffed in cooler
An assassin who achieved online notoriety through her slight frame and youthful looks has met with a violent end in Mexico’s drug wars.
Joselyn Alejandra Niño, known as La Flaca or “the Skinny One”, has been found dismembered and stuffed inside a beer cooler, The Daily Beast reports.
Niño became better known than most Mexican cartel killers earlier this year when her photo was posted to Facebook and Twitter. Appearing to be aged in her late teens or early 20s, she became the third female cartel member to carry the nickname.
The photograph showed a smiling young girl with the word Niño tattooed on her forearm holding a modified M4 assault rifle.
The girl was reportedly a female assassin, known as a sicaria, working for the Los Ciclones cartel, which has been waging a bloody war against rival gang Los Metros.
Last week Niño’s body was found with the bodies of a man and another woman in an abandoned truck in a car park in Lauro Villar, apparently the most recent victims of the underworld feud.
Photographs of the bodies posted to the internet showed her distinctive Niño tattoo clearly visible on a dismembered forearm. The images were accompanied by a message reading: “It will happen to all the filthy who want to support Cyclones”.
Sicarias dubbed “The Skinny One” have not enjoyed the best luck in Mexico’s infamous cartel wars.
The first La Flaca , Veronica Mireya Moreno Carreon of San Nicolas de los Garz, was arrested by Mexican marines in 2011. She was reported to have been the first woman to hold a leadership role in one of Mexico’s brutal drug gangs.
Later that year Nancy Manriquez Quintanar of Ecatepec, also called La Flaca, was arrested and accused of taking part in the murder of at least 12 rival drug dealers.
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