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New Uruapan Shooting Raises September Homicides to 11 as Missing 18-Year-Old Is Identified

Prosecutors have opened inquiries with suspects still at large.

Overview

  • A young man was shot outside his home on Calle Manuel Olivo in colonia San Juan Evangelista on Tuesday morning and died in an ambulance while being taken to a hospital.
  • Municipal Police and Guardia Civil searched for the attackers but did not locate them, and the area was secured for evidence collection.
  • Prosecutors from the Fiscalía Regional took over the case after first responders stabilized the scene, and the victim’s identity was not released.
  • In a separate case, authorities identified 18-year-old Rodrigo V., who had been reported missing, as the young man killed Sunday on Calle Felipe Ángeles in colonia 28 de Octubre.
  • The 28 de Octubre killing occurred near an earlier attack reported the same day, and the new cases bring Uruapan’s September homicide tally to 11.