Deputies probe singer’s death

BROWNSVILLE — The Cameron County Sheriff’s Department has joined the investigation into the death of a Mexican singer who was killed at a Matamoros hospital early Saturday.

Sheriff’s deputy Alvaro Guerra, who is the liaison between county lawmen here and the Tamaulipas State Police, confirmed Monday that he was contacted by Mexican investigators about the death of Zayda Peña.

Peña, 28, was the vocalist for the Mexican group Zayda y Los Culpables.

Guerra said Mexican investigators told him that the man who killed Peña, whose name had not been released as of Monday night, recently bought a car in Brownsville.

“That’s all the information we have so far,” Guerra said. “They are suppose to get back to me with more information. I haven’t heard from them again.”

The Tamaulipas enlinea Web site reported Monday that Peña was shot in the face early Saturday at El Hospital Alfredo Pumarejo where she was being treated for a gunshot wound to the back that she received Friday after she was caught with the suspect’s ex-girlfriend, Ana Bertha Gonzalez.

The suspect found Peña and Gonzales, who was also her presumed lover, at the Monaco Motel on La Carretera Matamoros Reynosa.

Tamaulipas State Police believe that Gonzalez’s ex-boyfriend killed her and Peña in a rage over a lesbian affair.

Leonardo Sanchez, an employee at the motel, was also killed Friday night, Tamaulipas enlinea reported.

Multiple calls made to Mexican investigators for the Tamaulipas State Police were not returned Monday night.