Mexico: Assassins shoot dead the mayor of Churumuco, in Michoacán

Suspected killers were shot dead on Saturday night Guilherme Torres Rojasmayor of the municipality of Churumucoin the state of MichoacanWest of Mexicostate authorities reported this Sunday.

In a statement, the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) indicated that the mayor was shot at around 10:30 pm local time on Saturday (05:00 GMT) by two armed men who invaded the El Inferno Restaurantlocated in the west of historic center from the city of Moreliacapital of Michoacan.

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The assassins fired at least four bullets into the mayor’s chest, although his 13-year-old son was also collaterally injured by a gunshot.

Paramedics and police took Red Towers and your son Star Medical Private Hospitalin the south of Morelia, where the 39-year-old mayor lost his life.

After the attack, police and security agents Mexican Army Operations began in various parts of Morelia, in search of the killers who managed to escape on a motorcycle.

Guilherme Torres won the mayorship of Churumuco in the 2021 elections, led by Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), although months later he resigned from that political institute to join the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), founded by the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

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Churumuco is a municipality located in the region of Hot Earth of Michoacán, where there is a strong fight between criminal organizations that call themselves Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Churumuco Cartel, Zicuiran Cartel it’s from The Knights Templar.

On January 6th, Civil Guard (state police) implemented an operation in Churumuco, which generated protests from citizens that, according to state authorities, were organized by one of the cartels of the drug trafficking.

During the protests, a police officer Civil Guard He was kidnapped by armed civilians, who murdered him and abandoned him on a highway in Churumuco.

Source: Elcomercio

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