Overview
- Arturo Pérez Anguiano Scully, 61, was shot in the head while arriving at his residence in Tijuana’s Los Españoles neighborhood on Monday evening, and paramedics confirmed his death at the scene.
- Witness accounts reported an assailant in dark clothing who ran toward Bulevar Federico Benítez and escaped in a Ford Explorer, and authorities have not announced any arrests.
- Proceso reported the lawyer was accompanied by a woman who was not injured during the attack.
- The Colegio de Abogados de Tijuana condemned the killing and demanded a serious, transparent investigation, while a penal lawyer urged prosecutors to apply Article 147 to consider the case a qualified homicide linked to legal practice.
- Pérez Anguiano Scully was a UABC professor, a PAN member, and a litigator in criminal and high-value civil cases, and the case follows the November 18 murder of attorney Emilia Ortega Aceves, in which a 16-year-old suspect was later detained.