Overview
- The shooting occurred around 8:10 p.m. in Uruapan’s central plaza during the Festival de las Velas, and Carlos Manzo was pronounced dead at Hospital Fray Juan de San Miguel at 8:50 p.m.
- Authorities say one assailant was killed at the scene and two suspects were detained, with a 9 mm handgun and seven spent casings recovered.
- State prosecutor Carlos Torres Piña described the attack as direct and confirmed that regidor Víctor Hugo de la Cruz Saucedo was wounded and is reported out of danger.
- State and federal forces secured the area and opened a homicide investigation, with officials pledging that the crime will not go unpunished.
- Manzo had repeatedly denounced local criminal groups and sought federal support this year in a city where multiple cartels operate and where a journalist was killed in the same plaza in 2024.