Medical school grad from Arkansasa says he 'can't recall anything' about vanishing for days in Mexico after friend's murder and his own alleged kidnapping
On Sunday, Pacheco said he had experienced a “complete blackout” after the ceremony.
“I mean, graduation — it was amazing,” he said during a news conference at the Merge Church in Van Buren. “All my family, friends were there. We were just celebrating and next thing you know [I] blacked out.”He said he didn’t know how many days he was gone, and he hadn’t spoken with Mexican authorities since returning to his native Arkansas.
“We don't know who he was with, who had him,” Pacheco’s mother, Vilma Franco, added. “We don't know nothing.” Pacheco’s friend, Carlos Alejandro Delgadillo Romero, who was also an American citizen and medical school student, was taken by a group of people from a bar the friends had gone to. Romero was beaten and shot to death with a pistol, the Jalisco attorney general’s office said.
Jalisco Attorney General Gerardo Octavio Solís Gómez said that investigators believed Pacheco had been kidnapped by the same group. No arrests have been made in Romero's death.
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