Overview
- Authorities confirmed Cohen’s death early Tuesday after he was shot at close range outside the judicial complex in Colonia Doctores.
- A nearby Investigación police officer intervened, shot the alleged assailant, and detained him at the scene; the suspect remains hospitalized under custody.
- Investigators seized a handgun and an unlicensed motorcycle and are analyzing surveillance footage to reconstruct the attack.
- The capital’s prosecutor’s office corrected initial bulletins that prematurely reported Cohen’s death before formally confirming it overnight.
- Officials have not identified a motive; a journalist’s claim that the suspect was promised 30,000 pesos and received a weapon from another person has not been verified by prosecutors.