Destination Uncertain for San Diego-Born Teenage Assassin After Release in Mexico Morgan Lee - U-T San Diego
go to original November 24, 2013

Unidentified Mexican soldiers guard Edgar Jimenez Lugo, 14, on Dec. 2, shortly after his arrest at an airport near Cuernavaca, Mexico. (Marco Antonio Diaz Sierra)

Three years after his arrest for beheading four young men on behalf of a drug gang in central Mexico, a San Diego-born teenager is preparing to walk out of juvenile detention next month.

Edgar Jimenez Lugo’s destination is uncertain, given fears that violent reprisals could await him at his former home in a working-class village south of Mexico City, where he arrived as a toddler from San Diego and fell into crime on the cusp of adolescence.

A request by Edgar to serve out his sentence in the United States, submitted earlier this year, was never endorsed by U.S. authorities.

That has left Mexican and U.S. officials to weigh the appropriate response to concerns about what comes next for the 17-year-old whose birth certificate confers the rights of U.S. citizenship.

The governor of Morelos, the state where Edgar is being held, wants him sent to the United States when his sentence is completed on Dec. 3.

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