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Two good friends — recent Lincoln High School graduates — were shot and killed in Mexico, where they’d gone to visit family over Christmas, according to friends in Lincoln.

Those friends and family members are still trying to come to grips with what happened Jan. 5, when Jairo Lopez Perez, 18, and Edgar Mora, 19, were apparently shot while in their car after leaving a party in Guanajuato in central Mexico.

“We don’t know exactly why,” said Alondra Quiroz, Mora’s girlfriend and a senior at North Star High School. “It’s really confusing for us. We don’t know.”

Lopez Perez, a 2018 LHS graduate, invited Mora to go to Mexico, where he had family, and the two left Dec. 21, Quiroz said. They arrived a couple of days later and had planned to return Jan. 4, but had a problem with the car that had to be repaired and delayed their return until Jan. 6.

On Jan. 5, Quiroz said, they went to church in the afternoon and to a party that evening. When they got into their car to leave the party, it appears they were ambushed and shot, she said.

“We don’t know if they got the wrong people ... we don’t really know,” said Jacqueline Martinez, who has known Lopez Perez since they were sophomores at Lincoln High. They dated for about a year.