Overview

• Two Protection Services agents from the Sinaloa public security ministry were shot and hospitalized in Culiacán, with the male agent identified as José “N” reported in grave condition.
• Governor Rubén Rocha Moya said his granddaughter, who was traveling in the white 2023 Jeep, was unharmed after the attack on Boulevard Jesús Kumate in the southwest of the city.
• The state security ministry initially described the incident as an attempted vehicle despojo, and the governor later said investigators are weighing a targeted attack against concerns about possible illicit links by some personnel.
• No arrests have been announced, and a passenger bus and other vehicles were struck by gunfire, with local reports differing on whether civilians were injured.
• The shooting occurred as federal security officials convened in Culiacán; authorities said an interagency group responded and cited roughly 14,000 military and federal forces deployed in Sinaloa, most of them in the capital.