CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP)–A gang leader suspected in the killings of a U.S. consulate worker in Mexico, her husband and another man has confessed to participating in the killings, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Ricardo Valles, 45–prominent in the notorious Los Aztecas gang–told investigators another Aztecas leader had “ordered him by telephone, a few days earlier, to locate the white van” carrying a U.S. consulate worker and her husband, who were later killed, said the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office.

Valles, according to the prosecutor’s statement, said he followed the van carrying the couple until other gang members told him to withdraw, then moments later he heard several shots.

The Aztecas gang is blamed for almost simultaneous attacks on March 13, in which the U.S. consulate worker and her husband, both Americans, were killed, as was a Mexican man who was married to another consulate staffer.

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