The defendants could not resist this wave of emotion. For the first time since the trial began, they lowered their heads in the dock.
After more than two weeks, most of the five defendants were proclaiming their innocence. The trial shifted with the mothers' testimony.
Looking them in the eye, also thinking of their own mothers, they asked for forgiveness.
Two of them spoke about the facts and each named the guilty parties.
They recounted in tears their lives shattered after the murder of their sons.
This is the third week of hearings. The events are part of a war between drug traffickers.