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A former Amazon executive who is the key suspect in his estranged wife's hit-style murder has been accused of paying $9,000 to have her killed.
Abril Pérez Sagaón was shot in the head and neck by a man on a motorcycle who opened fire through the passenger-side window where she was seated in a car while driving through Mexico City in November 2019.
Juan Carlos Garcia, who was the CEO of Amazon in Mexico when the company opened its first office in Mexico in 2015, is alleged to have paid 180,000 Mexican pesos to two sicarios, or hitmen, to carry out the killing.
He is even alleged to have offered a 50,000 peso bonus (about $2,500) if she was killed before the couple's next court hearing in a case she had filed against them.
When she was killed, Abril Pérez Sagaón, pictured here in better times, had been trying to prove that her husband had attempted to kill her in January with a baseball bat
Abril Pérez Sagaón was the mother to three children and was living in Monterrey, Mexico. She was killed while sitting in the back of a car in Mexico City
Pérez had already accused García of attempting to murder her while they the couple were still together.
García fled across the border to the U.S. before the trial began and is still on the run with an Interpol arrest warrant for him in 190 countries.
At the time of her murder, Pérez had a restriction order against García and moved from the capital to he northern Mexican state of Nuevo León.
Following her murder, García wrote a letter to the mayor of Mexico City protesting his innocence.
'As a father I would have never wanted for my kids to go through something like this, which has affected them and changed our lives,' García wrote to Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum.
Juan Carlos Garcia went missing after Abril Pérez Sagaón was shot in the head and neck by a man on a motorcycle who opened fire through the passenger-side window in November 2019
The above map shows where Garcia is believed to have walked across the border at Tijuana into the Untied States days after his estranged wife's November 2019 murder
Pérez was killed after she flew from Nuevo Leon to a private hospital in Mexico City to undergo a psychological examination as
