Overview

• Last night, gunmen on motorcycles opened fire with rifles at the FGE’s Barrios Históricos office, critically wounding a ministerial agent who remains in grave condition
• Minutes later, another group hurled a fragmentation grenade at the Policía Investigadora Ministerial command in Colonia El Coloso, damaging vehicles but causing no further injuries
• These incidents mark the third attack on state prosecutor facilities in under 48 hours after a weekend assault in Costa Azul where assailants fired around 100 rounds at FGE offices
• Under Colonel Zipacná Jesús Torres Ojeda’s direction, the FGE has launched a new investigation and is offering a one million peso reward through a confidential tip line
• Despite deployments of the National Guard, Navy and local police, Acapulco has recorded more than 310 homicides this year as turf disputes among major cartels intensify