Overview

• Passersby found a shot man estimated at 30 to 35 years old on a dirt road in colonia Leandro Valle and called 911.
• Municipal police and paramedics responded and confirmed the Leandro Valle discovery as a homicide.
• Forensic teams and the state prosecutor’s office processed the scene and opened an investigation file.
• A day earlier, Rafael Á., known as “El Charro,” 56, was intercepted and fatally shot on a public street in colonia Palmira, and the attackers fled.
• Local tallies report eight homicides in Apatzingán so far in September, alongside two presumed criminals killed in earlier confrontations with authorities.