Aleyda Romero Victorio was 21 years old and studying nursing in Chalco, State of Mexico. On weekends, she babysat children to pay for her studies, and that September afternoon in 2026 she was looking after the youngest son of Jonathan Meléndez, keyboardist and co-founder of Camilo Séptimo.
When danger entered the house in the Grand Viure housing development, in Atizapán de Zaragoza, Aleyda did not think of fleeing. “
According to accounts from relatives and the media, she told the 6-year-old boy to get under the bed and not come out no matter what happened. He obeyed. She left the room.
That night, Jonathan, his wife Ana Paula — four months pregnant — and their daughter Sofía, just 3 years old, died. Aleyda did too.
But the boy survived, hidden and silent, exactly as she had asked him.
Her family now demands that she be remembered by name: Aleyda Romero Victorio, the young woman who turned her final minutes into an act of love.
