Overview

• Authorities say two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at a vehicle lot in Zapopan, killing Barajas and a man and wounding an 18-year-old employee who is reported stable.
• Local media identified the second fatality as José María Cervantes Quintero, 33, described as a member of Barajas’s staff, though officials have not made that identification public.
• A witness told Univision’s Despierta América the victims had been followed before the attackers entered the lot as they went to pick up a vehicle.
• Jalisco’s prosecutor’s office and state public security officials opened a homicide investigation, and no suspects have been detained or publicly identified.
• Coverage notes Barajas previously received a 2023 narcomanta threat attributed to CJNG that led to a canceled show, while police have not confirmed any motive related to his narcocorridos.