The students, who hoped one day to join the wave of Mexican directors who have swept the Oscars in recent years, instead stumbled into the hands of a drug gang that employed the aspiring rapper. The gang duties were a sort of day job for Christian Omar Palma Gutierrez, a rapper who went by the handle "Qba." That was how the dreams of the three film students ended. Investigators say the film students, whose ages ranged from 20 to 25, had nothing to do with the drug trade. Their mistake was to unwittingly film at a home that had been used as safe house by a rival drug gang.

Source: ABC News April 27, 2018 16:18 UTC