There was no time to mourn. The next month, a series of thefts began, and Keldy frantically filed police reports. Armed men claiming to be in charge of the colonia stole cinderblocks and solar panels. Her family members were also being threatened. “I’m asking the authorities to help me,” her brother Óscar said, according to a separate report filed in late June. “I don’t know what to do and my fear is that they’re going to kill me.”
