{"id":215496,"date":"2026-04-30T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215496\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:00:08","slug":"mother-in-law-of-murdered-mexican-beauty-queen-carolina-flores-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215496\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother-in-law of murdered Mexican beauty queen Carolina Flores arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Mexican grandmother accused of murdering her beauty queen<\/a> daughter-in-law in an execution-style shooting has been arrested after allegedly fleeing the country.<\/p>\n

Erika Maria Herrera<\/a>, 63, was cuffed in Venezuela on Wednesday in connection with the killing of her son\u2019s wife, Carolina Flores, 27, following a two-week manhunt, Mexican outlet\u00a0Blog del Narco reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An Interpol red notice had earlier been issued for Herrera, after police named her as the lead suspect in the murder of Flores at her apartment in Mexico City\u2019s wealthy Polanco neighborhood on April 15.<\/p>\n

Mexican beauty queen Carolina Flores was murdered in her Mexico City home on April 15. JamPress<\/p>\n

As of Thursday, she was still in Venezuela awaiting extradition to Mexico, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Flores, a former Miss Teen Universe for the northern Mexican state of Baja California, was found with 12 gunshot wounds, including six to her head and six to her chest, in the home she shared with Herrera\u2019s son, Alejandro, and the couple\u2019s 8-month-old child.<\/p>\n

Chilling video<\/a> captured the moment Herrera allegedly gunned down Flores before being confronted by her son.<\/p>\n

In the clip, the mother-in-law is seen following Flores off-camera, before a dozen shots ring out.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did you do, you crazy woman?\u201d Alejandro says, walking into frame, carrying his young son.<\/p>\n

Her mother-in-law, Erika Maria Herrera, was arrested on Wednesday in Venezuela. Interpol<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing, she just made me angry,\u201d Herrera coldly replies, before reportedly claiming Flores had \u201cstolen\u201d her son away from her.<\/p>\n

Alejandro remains under investigation after allegedly not reporting his wife\u2019s death until the next day, giving his mother time to escape.<\/p>\n

Police confirmed Herrera\u2019s arrest in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Flores\u2019s husband, Alejandro (l), is under investigation over allegedly failing to report his wife\u2019s death until the next day. Jam Press<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Attorney General\u2019s Office of Mexico City confirms that, in coordination with authorities of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Erika Maria \u2018N\u2019 was arrested as the probable person responsible for the femicide of a 27-year-old woman committed in the Miguel Hidalgo borough,\u201d Mexican police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing the murder, the City of Mexico Prosecutor\u2019s Office initiated an investigation that made it possible to establish her probable involvement,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the evidence gathered on April 17, one day after the complaint was filed, a judge issued the corresponding arrest warrant,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mexican grandmother accused of murdering her beauty queen daughter-in-law in an execution-style shooting has been arrested after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3283,303,12193,2106,238,9,24,63,122,124,123,1076],"class_list":["post-215496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-arrests","tag-crime","tag-manhunts","tag-mexico","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}