Itzel Espinoza is found dead in a dark alley and with a bullet (PHOTOS)

• Itzel Espinoza was found shot to death in a dark alley in Arizona
• Two weeks after the crime, authorities have more questions
• The girl went out to a party with some friends and disappeared for almost 2 days

The 17-year-old Itzel Espinoza was found shot to death in a dark alley and her murder remains a mystery. The girl was found shot to death in the early hours of Saturday, July 3, 2021, in a dark and dirty alley, and authorities in Phoenix, Arizona, do not know why or who killed her.

The murder of young Itzel Espinoza has shocked the Hispanic community in Arizona as, as of this writing, the Homicide Division of the Phoenix Police Department (PPD) has not revealed the motive for the crime, nor has it arrested anyone.

Why was Itzel Espinoza killed? His crime is a mystery

Mercedes Fortune, a spokeswoman for the PPD, assured that the investigation of the crime remains open by agents of the Corporation’s Homicide Division. «We still don’t have enough information to say that the crime occurred where the body was found or at what time,» Fortune said.

The agents of the PPD Homicide Division have not accused anyone of the murder and the investigations are focused on knowing who the girl had gone out with since the night of Thursday, July 1, where she was, with whom and what her activities were until before dying from at least one bullet.

They find the body of Itzel Espinoza

At 5:30 in the morning of that tragic Saturday, July 3, 2021, a person called the PPD emergency number to report that in an alley between Chambers Street and 38th Street, in an industrial zone in the southeast of the area Metropolitan of Phoenix, a woman was sitting in a car and appeared to be injured.

Several PPD patrols were sent to the place where the unfortunate discovery was reported to confirm that indeed a Hispanic girl, later identified as Itzel Espinoza, was sitting inside a car and had died of at least one bullet.

The murder of Itzel Espinoza is shrouded in mystery

When the patrolmen saw the body of the young Itzel Espinoza, they requested the presence of the agents of the Homicide Division of the PPD to investigate the details of the case. The PPD investigation has so far not detailed whether the car in which the young Espinoza was dead was his or someone else’s.

However, the Homicide Division agents did detail that the girl was sitting in the passenger seat when they found her dead. Detectives do not know if they killed her there or if they drove her there in the car and then abandoned her. None of the few residents in the area heard or saw anything.

Who did Itzel Espinoza party with?

From there the agents of the Homicide Division of the PPD discovered a detail that could be the key in the mysterious murder of the young Itzel Espinoza. When officers learned the girl’s name and reported the tragedy to her family, they discovered that the girl had a missing person report.

According to the family of Itzel Espinoza, the 17-year-old girl left her house on the night of Thursday, July 1, 2021, to go have fun with some friends. However, the girl did not reveal to anyone of her loved ones where or with whom she would go for a walk with some friends.

The crucial clue of the «wrong people»

Itzel Espinoza’s family explained to the PPD Homicide Division agents that the girl did not go back to sleep at home. On the morning of Friday, July 2, the girl’s family filed a report of her disappearance with the corporation itself. Since Thursday night, Espinoza’s social networks and phone have been inactive.

According to the testimony of the family of Itzel Espinoza, to the agents of the Homicide Division of the PPD in recent months, prior to her death, the girl had begun to hang out with the «wrong people.» However, the girl’s family has not detailed who are those wrong people who were reunited with their daughter.

Itzel Espinoza wanted to be a model and ‘influencer’

Itzel Elizabeth Espinoza, her full name, like many other teenagers in the United States, was a very active girl in her social networks, since, in addition, the girl aspired to forge a career as a model and ‘influencer’ (influential person). The young woman was about to complete her last year of high school.

When Itzel Espinoza stopped communicating with her friends through her social networks, that raised alarms among her loved ones. Eduardo Espinoza, the father of the murdered girl, described his daughter as a cheerful and outgoing girl who always liked to be together with other people.

The family cries out for help

According to the family of Itzel Espinoza, the girl was a very feminine girl who adored her shoes, her makeup, being fashionable and taking care of her eyelashes in detail. In her account of the social network of Instagram, the young Itzel had already added more than 67,000 followers.

Eduardo Espinoza, the girl’s father, told various media in Phoenix, Arizona that the most painful part of the girl’s death is knowing that the joy of her home will never return home. Now the troubled father asks the community that if someone knows who and why his daughter was killed, they should report it to the authorities.

«Every night I was going to kiss him»

“Every night I went to his room to kiss him good night and now he’s not here anymore. It is a very difficult situation ”, declared Eduardo Espinoza to the television station NBC News 12 of Phoenix, about the painful absence of his daughter Itzel Espinoza and that it has disrupted the life of his family.

Elidia Quintero, grandmother of the young Hispanic Itzel Espinoza, is one of the people most affected by the murder of the girl, since she raised and cared for the young woman when she was a child, until she was two years old, while the parents of the girl worked to support her family.

«I can’t express my feelings to you.»

«All this is very sad for me,» the elderly Elidia Quintero also told the Phoenix television station NBC News 12 and assured that she is «suffering a lot, I just hope they find the person responsible for her murder.» The grandmother asks that the community help the authorities to find the murderer of her granddaughter Itzel Espinoza.

During the interview Eduardo Espinoza, Itzel Espinoza’s father, remembered a phrase that he always said to his daughter to make her feel loved and supported. «I am not your friend, I am your father … but now he is not here and I can not express my feelings to warn him to stop meeting with bad influences», ends the troubled man.

Thousands of people have been shot dead in the United States

According to the non-profit organization Gun Violence Archives, which fights to raise awareness about the dangers of the free sale of firearms, so far this year in the United States 24,185 people have been killed by gunshots so far in its statistics until Sunday, July 18, 2021 in the morning.

Of those people who have been shot dead in the United States, a total of 11,051 were killed and 13,134 committed suicide. In addition, 21,909 have been injured. The country has already experienced 366 mass shootings in the first half of the year, which are the incidents, where at least four people die in the same event.

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