Overview
- Authorities confirmed three deaths in the December 29 attack at Topacio and Brillante on the Guadalajara–Zapopan border, where a Lamborghini Urus and a GMC Yukon were secured at the scene.
- Videos and forensic work point to a prolonged exchange lasting roughly 10–15 minutes, with dozens to hundreds of shell casings collected and multiple wounded security escorts reported.
- Officials noted media reports linking victim Alberto Prieto Valencia to alleged illegal raffles at the Central de Abastos as a line of inquiry that remains unconfirmed.
- In Peru’s Villa El Salvador, mining entrepreneur Juan Cosme Garcilazo was shot after resisting an apparent truck theft attempt, with more than 15 shell casings found and his condition reported as critical after surgery.
- In Juliaca, residents damaged at least three clandestine cantinas after a man was found dead, and police detained two suspects identified locally as members of ‘Los Vándalos de Juliaca’; separately, prosecutors secured one-year suspended sentences, a one-year disqualification, and S/44,000 in reparations against three PNP officers for a 2021 abuse case, while holiday service schedules were announced in Mexico City and Argentina.