Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan murdered last night in an attack during the opening of the Candle Festival, was shot seven times with a nine millimeter weapon, during an attack reported the attorney general of Michoacán, Carlos Torres Piña.
Through a video on his Facebook account, the official confirmed that “at the scene of the events, one of the aggressors was shot dead and a millimeter short weapon was seized, as well as seven shell casings; when reviewing the aggressor’s belongings, no identification was found, so we will be working in the next few hours to identify him.”
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The municipal president was participating in the inauguration of the Candle Festival for the Day of the Dead, when three men shot him, according to official information from the National Security Cabinet.
The mayor’s security team responded to the attack, consequently one of the civilians who shot was killed.
The prosecutor announced that the attack against the mayor of Uruguay was perpetrated at 8:10 p.m. and after the attack the emergency services took him to According to the state prosecutor, after the attack, the mayor was transferred to the Fray Juan de San Miguel Hospital, in one of the central areas of the municipality, where he died at 8:50 p.m.
He reiterated that at the scene of the events an alleged perpetrator was killed, who has not yet been identified, since no identification was found among his belongings and that two other people were arrested for their possible participation.
He added that the Public Works councilor, Víctor Hugo de la Cruz Saucedo, was also injured in the attack, but is out of danger.