Overview
- Police reported pre-dawn gunfire at the unoccupied house in Yecapixtla’s Aquiles Serdán neighborhood, with impacts on a window and spent casings located.
- The Morelos state prosecutor’s office opened an investigation, and security forces secured the area and ordered patrol sweeps across the municipality.
- State security chief Miguel Ángel Urrutia said the mayor and his brother filed complaints that are now being handled by prosecutors.
- Authorities granted protective measures to the mayor and announced reinforced road checkpoints in areas including Casasano, Vía de Juárez and routes toward Tepalcingo.
- The incident marks a second shooting at the same residence in less than a month and forms part of a broader spate of attacks on local officials in eastern Morelos.