Erika María N was apprehended this Wednesday in Venezuela, after an Interpol red notice was issued, accused of the femicide of Carolina Flores Gómez, according to the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office. The 63-year-old woman had been on the run since April 15, when she allegedly shot her daughter-in-law in her apartment in the wealthy Polanco area of the capital without anyone hearing anything. The moment when the former Miss Baja California was killed with six shots by her mother-in-law was recorded through a motion sensor camera used to monitor her baby. The crime was committed in the tranquility of her home, with her husband, Alejandro N, and their eight-month-old child present. The outrage and controversy around the case grew because the model’s partner reported the crime to the authorities almost a day after it was committed.
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According to information released by the Public Ministry, Erika María N was detained last Friday the 24th for resisting authority in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. According to official information, she entered the mentioned city on April 16, a day after committing the crime via Panama. “The detained person is under the custody of the authorities of that country [Venezuela], while the necessary procedures are carried out to formalize her extradition to Mexico,” details a statement from the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office.
A video leaked to local media seven days later, on April 22, shows the moment the murder was committed inside the couple’s home. In this 45-second footage, Gómez and Erika María N are seen having an unintelligible exchange of words. Subsequently, the model heads to a room and her mother-in-law is seen following her. They leave the camera frame and six gunshots and several screams are heard. “What was that?” says Alejandro N, who appears carrying their son and heads to the same room where the two women entered. He is seen from behind in front of the room entrance and questions his mother: “What did you do, crazy?” “Nothing, she just made me angry,” Erika María N is heard responding calmly. “What’s wrong with you, crazy? She’s my family,” the man replies. “Your family is mine. You are mine and she stole you,” answers the mother, who is seen leaving the room alone after entering it with Gómez.
Reyna Flores Molina, Carolina’s mother, told Univisión in an interview that she did not perceive any behavior from her co-mother-in-law that could have made her suspect she was going to harm or end her daughter’s life. She says that since Gómez Flores and Alejandro N moved to the capital last December from Ensenada, Baja California, the relationship with Erika María N began to strain. “They lived in Ensenada with the mother-in-law [her daughter and Alejandro N]. Yes, she told me every time they had some kind of misunderstanding. Everything started to worsen when she was going to have her baby,” Flores revealed.
Probable femicide suspect detained in Venezuela committed in the Miguel Hidalgo borough
The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalía CDMX) reports that, in coordination with authorities of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Erika María was detained…
— Fiscalía CDMX (@FiscaliaCDMX) April 30, 2026
The questions surrounding the homicide have outraged Mexicans in a new case being investigated as femicide, in which the authorities’ reaction has been questioned. One of the first questions around the investigation is the testimony of the building’s night security guard, who, according to investigations, claimed not to have heard a gunshot or unusual noises. The second doubt arising around the case is the husband’s statement. He did not report his partner’s death until the next day, when he appeared at the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office.
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Carolina’s mother said she received a call from Alejandro N around noon on April 16. “I said to him: ‘How is Caro?’ It was then that he told me she was dead. I started screaming like crazy. In the distance, a woman’s voice was heard. He told me: ‘Ma’am, I am at the Prosecutor’s Office and they are talking to me, it’s because my mom [Erika María N] shot her,” Flores Molina recounts.
It was in that same conversation that the former beauty queen’s mother questioned him: “Alex, were you with the baby, literally, and Caro was lying there? He told me: ‘Is that really your question?’ I said: ‘Of course it is serious. How could you be with her so long and she lying there?’”
Lizette Dueñas, president of the Diamantina Rosa Collective, said that Alejandro N’s explanation was that he and his wife had an agreement that if something happened to one or the other, only they could take care of the child and that none of the grandmothers would be responsible for the little one. “What he supposedly does in those hours [between Carolina’s murder and the report] is record videos because he thought he was going to be detained. He starts recording videos to give instructions on how to care for his son,” Dueñas said.
Gómez stood out in beauty pageants from a very young age. She was born on April 4, 1999, and at 17, began gaining recognition by participating in various contests. In 2017, she was crowned Miss Teen Universe Baja California, a title with which she represented her state in the national contest, consolidating her as one of the young promises in the world of beauty in Mexico.
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