Mexican singer, 21, is shot dead by her lawyer husband, 79, inside Mexico City restaurant

A Mexican singer was shot to death by her husband in a Mexico City restaurant, local authorities reported Friday.

Yrma Lydia, 21, who was just beginning her career in music, was shot Thursday night at the Suntory Del Valle restaurant in the south of the city when she was attacked by her partner, 79-year-old Jesús Hernández Alcocer.

‘A man shot his wife three times, he is already detained along with another woman who accompanied him,’ said Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Security for Mexico City.

According to witnesses, after an argument, a gray-haired man shot the singer, who turned out to be his wife.

Alcocer tried to bribe the police to let him escape in the company of one of his security guards, who was also arrested.

Alcocer tried to bribe the police to let him escape in the company of one of his security guards (pictured right), who was also arrested

Yrma Lydya seen in this portrait with husband Jesús Hernández Alcocer

According to the newspaper El Universal , Lydia had participated in some presentations of Grandiosas 12, a series of concerts in Mexico and the United States that brings together well-known Central and South American singers, such as María Conchita Alonso and Dulce and Alicia Villareal

‘A man shot his wife three times, he is already detained along with another woman who accompanied him,’ said Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Security for Mexico City

The scene outside the restaurant where Lydya was killed

According to the newspaper El Universal, Lydia had participated in some presentations of Grandiosas 12, a series of concerts in Mexico and the United States that brings together well-known Central and South American singers, such as María Conchita Alonso and Dulce and Alicia Villareal.

A reported said the Alcocer has previously been accused of extortion.  

Gender violence has intensified in Mexico in recent years with an average of 10 women murdered daily. 

It’s part of a continued trending upwards of crime under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. 

He faced questions Friday about the fact that there have been more killings in his three and a half than his predecessor Felipe Calderon’s six. 

Lopez Obrador often campaigned on Calderon being responsible for senseless violence. 

Gender violence has intensified in Mexico in recent years with an average of 10 women murdered daily

Lydya’s murder is part of a continued trending upwards of crime under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Already 10 police officers have been murdered in 2022 in Mexico’s most violent state, Jalisco. 

Obrador has declared his government is no longer focused on detaining drug cartel leaders, and in 2019 he ordered the release of a captured leader of the Sinaloa cartel to avoid bloodshed.

López Obrador has implemented a strategy he calls ‘hugs, not bullets’ and has sometimes appeared to tolerate the gangs, even praising them at one point for not interfering in elections.

Asked at his daily morning news briefing if he intended to change strategies, López Obrador said, ‘No, rather the reverse, this is the right path.’