Overview
- Father Bertoldo Pantaleón Estrada, reported missing on October 4, was found on October 6 near kilometer 199 of the Mexico–Acapulco highway in the municipality of Eduardo Neri.
- The Guerrero state prosecutor opened a homicide investigation and forensic teams processed the scene with support from the Army, National Guard and state police.
- Preliminary police accounts say the priest sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was found inside his vehicle.
- Federal security chief Omar García Harfuch said the priest’s driver is the main suspect and is being sought; the diocese and parishioners say they do not know of such a driver.
- Funeral rites were held in Mezcala as the episcopate pressed for a prompt, exhaustive probe; no arrests have been publicly confirmed, and the federal government says it is in contact with the Church.