Overview
- The 38-year-old former official was attacked around 9:40 a.m. on calle Palomas in the Parque Hundido neighborhood as he left his residence.
- A lone assailant approached and fired multiple times before fleeing, and investigators recovered at least ten .380-caliber shell casings.
- Cruz Roja paramedics found the victim without vital signs, and the body was moved to the state forensics service for autopsy.
- Army, National Guard, and municipal police secured the area as the Laguna vice prosecutor’s office opened a homicide case, with no arrests or suspects announced.
- PRI Gómez Palacio, Durango’s Movimiento Ciudadano coordinator Omar Castañeda, and Mayor Betzabé Martínez condemned the killing and demanded results, with concern heightened by October’s slaying of journalist Miguel Ángel Beltrán.