[1][8][A 1] She was seriously wounded and was immediately taken to the nearest hospital in Nuevo Laredo to undergo surgery, but García Escamilla died twelve days later from liver failure in the morning of 16 April 2005.

[4][10][11] The attack came just less than an hour after García Escamilla had aired a report on the murder of a Mexican lawyer, Fernando Partida Castañeda, who was linked with a drug trafficking organization.

[10] The murder of García Escamilla occurred just a few days after the killing of Raúl Gibb Guerrero (8 April 2005), another Mexican journalist who owned a newspaper that covered information relating to Gulf Cartel and the illegal drug trade.

In order to defend Nuevo Laredo from rival gang members, the Gulf Cartel hired commandos of the Mexican Armed Forces and formed a group called Los Zetas, in reference to their radio code.

[1] With a round of applause, García Escamilla was bid farewell at the Catholic church of San Judas Tadeo in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas by a number of businessmen, journalists, public workers, politicians, and family and friends of her, who attended the religious ceremony on 18 April 2005.

"[1] The Dallas Morning News received a video from an anonymous user in December 2005 filming four alleged drug traffickers of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, with clear signs of torture, confessing their involvement in the murder of García Escamilla.

After six minutes of confessing how their criminal organization works and how they get rid of their enemies, a man in the background pulls out a 9 mm pistol and shoots one of the victims in the head, killing him instantly.

[25][29] One of the victims confessed in the video that García Escamilla was under the payroll of the Gulf Cartel to reportedly maintain control and censor the information relating to drug trafficking.