The Michoacán Prosecutor’s Office announced Thursday the identification of the body of the alleged murderer of Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez, former municipal president of Uruapan. According to the owner, Carlos Torres Piña, Víctor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales, 17, from the nearby municipality of Paracho, is linked to organized crime. His body was recognized and claimed by his relatives this Wednesday afternoon. The attacker’s family acknowledged that he had been absent from home a week before the events.
Torres Piña announced that Víctor Manuel N. tested positive for sodium rhodizonate, a chemical compound that, together with other acids, is used in a forensic test to detect the presence of lead and barium residues, which confirms that he was the one who shot the mayor on at least six occasions.
In the midst of the Day of the Dead celebration, with the city square packed, Manzo was shot on Saturday evening and died a few minutes later.
(News in development. More information will be available soon)
