This is how El Siglo de Torreón reported the death of Paco Stanley 25 years ago

It was June 7, 1999, it seemed like it would be a normal day in forum 5 of TV Azteca Ajusco, where the program One after another was recorded, Paco Stanley greeted the audience and reflected on what he had to be grateful for for the simple fact of being there. alive, and as an irony of fate, within a few hours he would leave the world in an unexpected and violent way.

Throughout the morning Stanley played and made jokes with his co-hosts, Mario Bezares and Jorge Gil, but strangely things began to break down when after reading some messages from the public.

“Pedroza to the booth, I’ll be right back,” Paco said, raising his hand and then headed out of the forum, with the floor manager following behind him.

When Paco returned to the painting, he was no longer wearing a jacket and was sweating, he argued that the place was very hot, immediately he began to make aggressive comments against Mario Bezares, which he knew how to handle well with his characteristic humor.

“I want to tell you some bad news, we’re leaving,” was how Stanley said goodbye to the day’s broadcast, the last one he would do.

Not that Mexicans know it perfectly well, Paco, Mario and Jorge went to lunch at the El charco de las ranas restaurant. It was 12:10 in the morning when Stanley and Jorge Gil were already in the truck ready to leave, they were only waiting for Bezares who had gone to the bathroom due to an upset stomach, but two men who had gotten off the pedestrian bridge that is near the restaurant, They began shooting at the vehicle.

There were 20 shots that hit the truck, four of them were fatal for the television star, who was left lying on his right side in the passenger seat already lifeless, while his colleague was wounded in the leg in the back seats.

The next day, El Siglo de Torreón released more details with a note published on the main page titled “Television host Francisco Stanley is deprived of his life.”

The note mentioned that between three and four “hitmen” shot down yesterday (June 7, 1999) the

television host, Francisco “Paco” Stanley, and until last night the Attorney General’s Office of the Federal District (PGJDF) did not know the motive for the murder.

“From the first fundamental indications there are,” reported the capital’s prosecutor, Samuel del Villar, and added, “everything seems to indicate that the motive for this attack…was not a financial objective, it was not to rob him, it was not the objective to kidnap him.” to ask for a reward, but rather it was an operation aimed at depriving him of his life.

At 8:00 p.m. it was reported that Zenaido Roberto Flores and a son were arrested in the Morelos neighborhood, apparently they were driving a 1994 Volkswagen Jetta model car with DE license plates 578KGG, which are included in the list of fourteen witnesses who declared about

the facts in the Public Ministry agency.

The lawyers of these accused denied that they had participated in the crime, at night a police operation was implemented in the Tepito neighborhood hoping for the capture of several suspects.

Del Villar reported at a press conference that the initial proceedings establish that between three or four subjects crossed the Periférico Sur pedestrian bridge towards the aforementioned restaurant, approaching directly – at an accelerated pace – the black “Lincoln” van, which was already boarding. driver.

Stanley was hit seven times by a 40 caliber bullet. According to official information, four of these went directly into his face, with one bullet lodged in his skull. His death was instantaneous.