Overview
- Residents planned a silent march starting at 10 a.m. from the McDonald’s roundabout, with a route through central avenues to the municipal pergola.
- Organizers asked participants to wear white or black and display black ribbons at homes and businesses as symbols of mourning and a call for peace.
- Businesses announced a daylong strike, and some fuel retailers planned a brief morning pause, though a regional gas station union said its members would remain open.
- Local lawmakers appointed the late mayor’s wife, Grecia Itzel Quiroz García, as interim municipal leader, and she called for dignified, nonviolent demonstrations.
- Authorities identified the on-scene suspect as a 17-year-old killed by the mayor’s bodyguards, linked the attack to organized crime, and are seeking two accomplices after earlier protests escalated into building incursions in Morelia.