Overview

• Local police and UPOEG community patrols are investigating an ambush in Ayutla de los Libres that left eight to nine community officers dead and five wounded, with operations ongoing to find the gunmen.
• Authorities in Michoacán confirmed that seven people—including six family members and a truck driver—died when a combi from Lázaro Cárdenas collided head-on with a cargo vehicle on the Autopista Siglo XXI, prompting a revised death toll.
• Investigators in La Matanza have detained an adult suspect and identified several minors in the motorcycle robberies that killed Esmeralda Bustamante and Rita Suárez, while manhunts continue for three additional alleged assailants.
• The SSC in Mexico City arrested an 18-year-old over a parking dispute shooting in Álvaro Obregón that killed a 41-year-old man, and prosecutors are seeking other individuals connected to the attack.
• A Buenos Aires provincial police subofficer shot dead one of two motochorros who tried to rob him, suffered a leg injury and is hospitalized while the second suspect remains at large.