Overview

• Miguel Ángel N was detained in Chilpancingo under an arrest warrant as a presumed co-perpetrator, according to SSPC chief Omar García Harfuch.
• State and federal forces coordinated the operation, including the Guerrero prosecutor’s office, SSPC, SEDENA, SEMAR, the National Guard, and the FGR.
• Authorities have advanced a working hypothesis that the attacker was the priest’s driver, a point publicly disputed by the local bishop.
• Father Bertoldo Pantaleón Estrada, parish priest of San Cristóbal in Mezcala, was abducted on Oct. 5 and found fatally shot the next day near the Iguala–Chilpancingo road.
• Hundreds joined a motorized caravan in Chilpancingo calling for peace, protection for clergy, and accountability as investigators have not detailed a motive.