 Cordero was about to graduate from the University of Chihuahua in June 2010 and was pursuing her graduate studies in the United States.On 16 April 2010, Cordero and her friend María Catalina Flores Aguayo (age 22) went out for dinner at a local restaurant in Chihuahua, Chihuahua when an armed commando opened fire at them from a moving vehicle at around 11