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Former Tixtla Municipal Secretary Found Dead in Guerrero

State prosecutors have opened a homicide investigation in the case.

Overview

  • The body was found around 6:30 a.m. at Margarito Damián Vargas and Ignacio Allende in Tixtla’s Santa Cecilia neighborhood.
  • Initial reports note blunt-force injuries and signs of asphyxia on the victim.
  • Neighbors alerted authorities, police secured the area, and the state prosecutor’s office began investigative proceedings.
  • No arrests have been reported, and officials have not identified a motive.
  • Rodríguez Campos served as Tixtla’s secretary general from 2021 to 2024 and is the son of former PRI legislator Violeta Campos Astudillo, as well as the half-brother of Esmeralda Garzón Campos, who was killed in June 2024.