Ruthless Mexican hitman reveals his chilling account of his eight murders – including shooting a pregnant woman as her young daughter watched
A MERCILESS Mexican hitman has opened up about his harrowing life with a brutal cartel - including how he murdered eight people and shot a pregnant woman as her daughter watched.
Martin Corona was a member of the "Death Squad" for the Tijuana Cartel, which once tried to take down drugs kingpin El Chapo Guzman in a hail of bullets before he fled.
He has given a chilling account of his life with the bloodthirsty crime organisation, where he ran an elite killing crew.
The squad would hole up in an office in Mexico waiting for an order to kill. When they got their request, the hitmen would select their "geeky" inconspicuous outfits and carry out their orders.
Corona, who has written a book Confessions of a Cartel Hitman, has revealed one hit that he claims will haunt him forever.
He blasted two women without realising one was pregnant and her young child was watching the horror unfold. Both somehow managed to survive.
The assassin said: "She opened the door with the chain still attached to get a look at me. What she saw was a clean‑cut nerdy guy, so she took the chain off.
"As soon as she did that, I pulled out my gun and the rest of the crew rushed into the house. By this time the mom was with the daughter by the door and they both tried to take off screaming.
";We let the daughter go and three of us sort of tackled the mom.
"Pato shoots her in the head and Drak and I shoot as well. We were pretty certain she wouldn’t survive the five rounds she’d just taken."
Corona was also sent to get revenge for a hit organised by El Chapo, who ran the rival Sinaloa cartel.
The two gangs regularly clashed in the 1990s and 2000s as they violently rampaged across Mexico leaving a pile of bodies in their wake.
In the planned hit at Guadalajara airport, the infamous crime boss managed to escape - and Corona instead killed a cardinal caught up in the carnage.
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Guzman was recaptured after escaping prison in January 2016 and extradited to New York in January and is currently kept in a cell for 23 hours a day.
Corona now claims he is remorseful of his brutal past and has written letters apologising to the families of those he killed.
He joined the Tijuana cartel - run by Benjamin Arellano Felix and brother Ramon - when he was aged 29 after being protected by some of its members while in prison as a teenager.
The killer believed he would be helping flood the streets of Mexico with drugs - but instead he ended up being part of the murderous squad acting on orders to kill.
The more bloody tasks he carried out, the more of a target he became for his rivals.
At 37, he was caged for 25 years for cocaine distribution and worked out a deal to cooperate with the authorities and lift the lid on the gang's network of violent killers.
Corona was released from prison in 2014 and has now published his tell-all book Confessions of a Cartel Hitman, which focuses on his life as an assassin.
He currently lives in a US government run witness protection programme.
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