Overview
- Michoacán’s state prosecutor named 17-year-old Víctor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales as the material perpetrator, citing positive meth toxicology and gunshot-residue tests, and confirmed his family reclaimed the body.
- Investigators say multiple actors took part and report the 9mm pistol used also appears in October Uruapan attacks linked by authorities to the CJNG.
- Despite more than 20 assigned guards from state, municipal and National Guard units, the shooter reached Mayor Carlos Manzo at the Festival de Velas, and silent marches have continued in Michoacán.
- Elsewhere in Mexico, PVEM councilor Guadalupe Urban Ceballos was killed in Oaxaca, former Veracruz mayor Lázaro Francisco Luria was found dead after a kidnapping, and ex-mayor Alejandro Correa Gómez was located alive in Michoacán.
- In Peru, two suspects in the January attack on Trujillo’s Fiscalía were released after preventive detention expired without a request to extend it, and in Argentina a judge imposed preventive detention under house arrest for police officer José Eliseo Funes in a fatal shooting case.