Overview
- Two young people were killed and a third wounded in a shooting in Colonia Chulavista, Cuernavaca, during a Saturday night incident when armed suspects on a motorcycle opened fire.
- The Fiscalía General del Estado de Morelos opened a carpeta de investigación, which formally launches a criminal inquiry and triggers evidence collection.
- Investigators from the Agencia de Investigación Criminal and the Coordinación de Servicios Periciales have examined the scene, gathered physical evidence and reviewed surveillance footage for leads.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum instructed federal attention to the case and Fiscal Fernando Blumenkron Escobar requested support from the Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana and the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia for forensic and intelligence assistance.
- Authorities say the probe will pursue all lines of inquiry without criminalizing victims, no arrests have been publicly reported yet, and the case comes weeks after the high-profile killing of another UAEM student that has increased local concern about violence.