A note left for her estranged husband explaining her decision was found at the scene.
According to neighbors quoted in local newspapers, the woman, known as “Maria Georgina,” was at her wit’s end after officials at the federal Housing Institute (Infonavit) told her she would have to leave her home because she had not kept up with her monthly mortgage payments.
Recently abandoned by her husband who worked on a Pemex offshore platform, she had found work at a maquiladora plant but only earned 820 pesos a week, not enough to maintain her family and pay her debts.
According to one news report, in her farewell note, Maria Georgina wrote that she had gone to many local agencies to seek help but was ignored by all of them. According to the Milenio newspaper, she even included a message for the state governor, imploring him to “create institutions that really help people in vulnerable conditions.”
The woman, who was originally from Guanajuato, apparently had no family in Guadalajara. Neighbors said she was friendly, hard working and attentive to her children, and had lived on the same street for nine years.