Watch: 21-Year-Old Female Cartel Leader, Who Massacred 13 Cops, Dies In Shootout

The final moments of ‘La Cartina’ a female cartel boss made the rounds as a gory footage emerged online of her grappling for breath after a police shootout on Friday in Mexico.

The 21-year-old member of a cartel hit squad that massacred 13 police offers in October, goes by the real name María Guadalupe López. The footage also shows a rather battered and bruised Lopez being pacified by a military soldier who tried to keep her going. “Relax dear, the helicopter is coming for you,” said the serviceman. “Relax dear, you are going to be fine. Try to hold on, OK,” he added.

The female cartel boss was airlifted to a hospital in a desperate bid to save her life after the road leading out of the city of La Bocanda was blocked. She played a key role in a brutal attack against the military, police and national guard in La Bocanda, a small town in Michigan.

As per a recent report, the State officials were initially reluctant to divulge details about the identity of the woman who was killed in the Friday shootout. But, a series of videos and images made the rounds on Sunday which exposed the face of a fatally wounded woman with a tattoo of a “Catrina” on her thigh. Users began to connect the dots after photos of a woman circulated—who bore the same tattoo in the exact same place. Snaps of the woman in question holding a pistol also made the rounds.

Officials confirmed that six male gunmen were nabbed and a woman was killed after the gang opened fire on soldiers and police in the same spot where the October 14 ambush took place. It was noted that Lopez observed and oversaw the October ambush which killed 14 cops and brutally injured none others in Michoacan city of Aguililla. It is learned that Friday’s attack, also in Aguililla, was also carried out while a meeting with Miguel “M2” was underway.

In another video, a soldier is seen carrying López Esquivel before the female assassin was placed inside a helicopter in the municipality of Tepalcatepec.

The other arrested suspects were identified as Alejandra; Everardo; Brayan Juan; Juan Carlos; Octavio; Pedro; and Alejandro. Because of the Mexican judicial system's due process laws, the last names of the suspects remain undisclosed.

López Esquivel took on the name of 'La Catrina,' Mexico's 'Grande Dame of Death.' a satirical skeleton figure celebrated on the Day of the Dead. Born to a farmer father and a housewife mother, Lopez flee the city of Tepalcatepec and began living with an unnamed member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Aguililla in 2017.