Overview

• At approximately 10:20 a.m. on July 15, gunshots erupted near the Luis Donaldo Colosio Secondary School at Bachiller and Isla Coronado in Colonia Salomón Sáenz, sending graduates, families and staff scrambling for cover under chairs and in restrooms.
• Investigators from the Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado and agents of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación Criminal processed the scene and collected forensic and ballistic evidence.
• The victim, an unidentified man wearing a gray shirt and jeans, was found with gunshot wounds and transferred to the Servicio Médico Forense for a necropsy.
• State prosecutors have opened a formal homicide investigation to determine the circumstances of the shooting and whether it targeted the graduation event.
• This incident adds to a recent surge of more than 30 organized crime-related homicides in Baja California Sur since June, with Comondú reporting the highest number of killings.