Overview
- Municipal police killed the assailant, identified as 17-year-old Víctor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales, after he fatally shot Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo.
- Relatives had been searching for Vidales following his recent disappearance from his home in Paracho, which aided his identification.
- Authorities are being pressed to trace and detain the alleged intellectual authors of the assassination.
- Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez held virtual sessions with the 113 Michoacán municipal presidents and with Catholic and evangelical leaders to shape a state rescue program, with a draft expected next week.
- The case has reignited proposals to reduce the age of criminal responsibility to 16, highlighting long-standing cartel recruitment of minors and brief juvenile sentences for severe crimes.