A municipal police officer from Acapulco, Guerrerowas shot dead inside a car on the highway And Greek-The Crossesin the Garita colony. There have been 13 executions this year.
The homicide occurred minutes before 7:00 a.m. this Sunday; it was reported that the man left work from the night shift of the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) and headed home.
The uniformed man remained in the passenger seatbut witnesses say that he was the one driving the car when armed men joined him and attacked him.
After the shots were fired, the officer crashed into some metal railingsso he tried to get out of the car passenger side.
According to The South of Acapulcoparamedics came to the scene, but the victim, who was identified as Valente, no longer had vital signs.
Elements of the police arrived at the scene National guard and experts of the Guerrero Attorney General’s Office, as well as agents of other corporations, announced The Sun of Acapulco.
The body was sent to the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) for the legal autopsy.
According to a report by the organization Common Causeduring 2023, 412 police officers were killed in the country, 2 percent more than the victims recorded in 2022.
The document indicates that on average one police officer was killed every day last year and the states with the highest number of officers killed in the year are Guanajuato (60), Guerrero (40), Zacatecas (32), Michoacan (28) and Jalisco (24).
From December 1, 2018 to December 31, 2023 At least 2,230 police officers were recorded as having been executed in Mexico.
The corporation with the most incidents is the municipal corporation, followed by the state corporation, and in third place the federal corporation, according to Causa en Común.
On April 11, Eduardo Chávez Manzanares, director of the traffic police at the port, was murdered.
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2024-08-29 18:19:35