The video footage showed the dying moments of the female cartel boss after she was fatally wounded during a shootout with police on Friday
The clip and photographs appear to confirm she was María Guadalupe López Esquivel, known as ‘La Catrina,’ a female member of a cartel hit squad that massacred 13 police officers in October.
The 21-year-old was involved in an attack against the military, national guard and police in La Bocanda, a town in the central state of Michoacán.
Authorities in Michoacán said six male gunmen were captured and a woman was killed after they opened fire on soldiers and police in the same area where the October ambush occurred.

María Guadalupe López Esquivel [photo], appeared in a video filmed by the Mexican military struggling to breathe after she was wounded in an attack Friday in the central state of Michoacán

State officials initially did not provide the identity of the woman killed in the Friday shootout, but videos and photos posted on the internet late Sunday showed the woman wounded on a stretcher, with a tattoo of a ‘Catrina’ on her thigh.
Photos of the woman circulated earlier showed the same tattoo in the same place; some photos also show her holding a pistol.
The Catrina is a skeletal female figure with a wide hat that has become associated with Mexico’s Day of the Dead.

Footage recorded by the military showed a battered and bloodied López Esquivel sitting on the ground and struggling with her breath.
A Mexican soldier is hear in the video assuring her the medical assistance was on the way.
‘Relax dear, the helicopter is coming for you,’ the serviceman said. ‘Relax dear, you are going to be fine. Try to hold on, OK.’
In a separate video, a soldier carries López Esquivel and kneels on the ground before she was placed inside an awaiting helicopter in the municipality of Tepalcatepec.
The other arrested  suspects were identified as Alejandra; Everardo; Brayan Juan; Juan Carlos; Octavio; Pedro; and Alejandro. Because of the Mexican judicial system’s due process laws, the last names of the suspects were not publicized.
In Mexico’s underworld, López Esquivel operated under the name ‘La Catrina,’ Mexico’s ‘Grande Dame of Death.’
Women have sometimes occupied high-level positions as money launderers in drug cartels in the past, but it is rare for them to command or coordinate hit squads.
La Catrina reportedly was meeting with another top cartel cell leader, Miguel ‘M2’ Fernández, before the gang attacked the security forces. M2 reportedly escaped unharmed.
Other gang members allegedly blocked off some of the town roads, which forced the military to request helicopter backup.

López Esquivel took a liking to actress Kate Del Castillo’s portrayal of a female narco boss in the hit Spanish-language series ‘La Reyna del Sur.’
In a controversial move, Del Castillo along with American actor, director and filmmaker Sean Penn secretly met now jailed Sinaloa cartel boss, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, in October 2015,
The meeting took place three months before the Mexican military captured the most dangerous Cartel boss in Mexico and extradited him to USA to stand trial.