According to media reports, Mexican authorities have arrested six bodyguards who accompanied Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo on the night of his murder on November 1. Quadratina AND López-Dóriga. The Prosecutor’s Office was investigating security personnel who accompanied the municipal president to the Day of the Dead celebrations for shooting Víctor Manuel Ubaldo, the teenager who pulled the trigger, when he was already immobilized. The Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, had already reported that the suspects were municipal police officers who acted as Manzo’s bodyguards that night.
Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, governor of the state of Michoacán, also confirmed the investigation into the mayor’s bodyguards for opening fire on the assassin when he no longer posed a threat. “They arrest the murderer and a few moments later there is a struggle and there is a single shot that kills the murderer,” he told the media at a press conference. “The fields of investigation are open in every sense,” he added.
The Prosecutor’s Office has not yet specified who the detainees are and the charges against them.
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