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Morelia Shootings Leave Three Dead as Tijuana Reports Arrest and Foiled Abduction

Authorities have opened forensic investigations following the latest attacks.

Overview

  • Two of the three people shot at a brickworks in El Arquito, Tenencia Morelos, have died and a third remains hospitalized, with state prosecutors securing the scene and transferring the bodies for autopsy.
  • Police reported a threatening message left on cardboard at the El Arquito site, and the Fiscalía General del Estado is leading the inquiry into the killings.
  • In a separate attack in Villas del Pedregal, a 26-year-old identified as José Daniel was fatally shot as investigators from USPEC opened a case and seized a bloodstained motorcycle linked to his security job.
  • Additional shootings in Morelia wounded three people, including a 55-year-old man taken to a hospital from colonia Buenos Aires and two victims in colonia Juárez, where officers documented three spent casings.
  • Tijuana’s municipal police detained a suspected Oxxo robber after a report on bulevar Cucapah, local outlets reported a prevented abduction in Zona Centro and a grocery-store fire in Colinas de la Mesa, and September’s homicides were tallied at 95 with 943 so far this year.