Overview
- Prosecutors said the officers stopped a car with tinted windows when men from another vehicle overpowered them and drove them away in their patrol pickup.
- The victims were identified as Libna Mata Villegas, 40, and Gisela Ceballos Quezada, 28, whose bodies were found in the bed of their official truck with gunshot wounds to the head.
- Governor Pablo Lemus convened the state Security Cabinet and ordered coordinated search operations by air and land to find those responsible.
- The C5 control center is reviewing surveillance footage in real time, with early leads pointing to at least two suspect vehicles and participation by at least four assailants.
- No arrests have been announced, and the killings occurred in an industrial corridor where authorities jailed seven alleged extortionists two days earlier.