Overview
- About twenty attackers in four pickup trucks opened fire on municipal officers guarding Tocumbo’s entrance in the early hours of Jan. 1.
- One officer, identified as Javier Tenis Ceja, died at a hospital, and another, Juan Carlos Pedro Ruiz, remains hospitalized in serious condition.
- The assailants fled toward Jalisco on rural roads after the attack, and regional police mobilizations reported no arrests.
- State investigators processed the scene and ordered the transfer of the deceased to the forensic service in Uruapan as the probe continues.
- The assault followed a similar lethal attack on police in nearby Cotija last week and coincided with two execution-style killings reported in Chilchota.