The announcement was made by Mexico's National Security Commission via Twitter. Authorities say he wanted to prevent the students from disrupting an event by his wife the night they went missing. He said the criminal group accused of executing the students thought they belonged to a rival gang, also operating around the city of Iguala where the students were last seen. There is no indication that the mayor wanted all of the students dead , authorities said, but the gang mistook them for a rival group and executed them. Flores Vasquez helped protect city's police officers who were connected with the students' disappearance, authorities said.

Source: CNN October 21, 2016 20:31 UTC