Tania Mendoza, a Mexican actress and singer, was killed while waiting to pick up her 11-year-old son from a football academy in Morelos.
Tania Mendoza was with other parents at a sporting centre in Cuernavaca on Tuesday, December 14, when two armed guys arrived on a motorcycle.
Before fleeing with his partner, one of the men shot her many times.
Mexico has a high crime rate, and femicide, or the intentional killing of women because of their gender, has been on the rise in recent years.
Tania Mendoza, a Mexican actress, was killed while waiting to pick up her 11-year-old son from a football academy.
According to official statistics, at least ten women were slain in the country every day last year.
Around a third of the victims, 940, were femicide instances, according to Amnesty International.
Mendoza, 42, rose to prominence after starring in the film La Mera Reyna del Sur in 2005. She'd also acted in a few soap operas, but in recent years she'd focused on her singing career, recording five albums.
She was abducted at the couple's car wash company in 2010, together with her husband and six-month-old son. She had received multiple death threats since then, which she had reported to the Morelos State Attorney General's Office.
It is still unknown who is responsible for Mendoza's death, as well as any plausible motivation.