ACAPULCO.— The director of the Road Police of the port of Acapulco, Eduardo Chávez Manzanares, was murdered yesterday in the middle of the wave of political violence that Mexico faces heading into the June 2 elections.
A group of men, not yet identified, shot the official to death outside his home in the Fifth Stage area of Infonavit Alta Progreso, reported the Secretariat of Public Security of Acapulco.
Reports from the agency indicated that the attack occurred at 8:40 local time when the director left his house and got into his patrol car to go to work.
The first investigations of the State Attorney General’s Office They indicate that at least three men, one on a motorcycle and two others in a car, arrived on the street Paseo de la Cañada to shoot him.
Relatives of Chávez Manzanares moved the body to his house so that it would not be inside the patrol car, while members of the National Guard They guarded the crime scene.
He municipal government of Acapulco condemned the homicide and said that the Ministry of Public Security collaborates with the State Attorney General’s Office in investigations.
This crime occurs during the Tianguis Turístico, the largest industry event in this sector in Mexico, so the National Guard has shielded the Diamond area, where the business meeting takes place.
It is also recorded in the midst of the wave of political violence, with at least 50 murders of candidates, public officials and family members so far in the electoral process, according to an investigation by the Electoral Laboratory organization.
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2024-04-19 19:54:35
