Overview
- Roughly 20 assailants in four pickup trucks entered Tocumbo from Jalisco and opened fire on three municipal officers stationed at the town entrance.
- Officer Javier Tenis Ceja, about 45, died at a private hospital in Los Reyes around 1 a.m., according to local reports.
- Officer Juan Carlos Pedro Ruiz was wounded and is recovering, while a third officer was not injured.
- The state prosecutor’s office opened initial inquiries and ordered the transfer of the body to the Forensic Medical Service in Uruapan for autopsy.
- Tocumbo police, supported by Cotija and Tingüindín units, searched rural routes toward Jalisco, but the attackers escaped and remain at large.