Shooting in Acapulco leaves one dead and a tourist injured

Despite the police and military deployment in the hotel zone of the port of acapulcoin the state of Guerrero, this Saturday a armed attack who left a dead man and injured tourist.

According to reports, the detonations were heard around 10:30 a.m. in the coastal Miguel Aleman and Calle Juan de la Cosa, in the Magallanes housing estate, almost opposite the Playa Suites hotel.

After the attackers fled, witnesses alerted the 911 emergency number, so that a few minutes later elements of the Departmental Police, paramedics and experts from the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Guerrero arrived. , who found two men lying on the ground, one of them alive; He was a tourist who was taken to a nearby hospital.

While the deceased was identified as Francisco Reyeswho was a proponent of beach cleanups.

It should be mentioned that experts have found 14 sockets of a firearm at the scene of the crime. So far, the motive for the crime is unknown.

On the other hand, around 06:30, the corpse of a man between Solidaridad and Arroyo streets, from Renaissance cityin the suburban area of ​​the port.

the victim’s body showed signs of torturebecause he was gagged, with a yellow cloth in his mouth, bound by his feet and hands, in addition to the fact that the municipal police and elements of the National Guard recorded a stopper, caliber 9 mmwith him.

After the first steps, the body of the victim was transferred to the Forensic Service (Semefo), to carry out the legal autopsy, and is unknown. The prosecutor’s office is already investigating the crime.

On March 9, an armed group assassinated an Acapulco City Hall official outside the door of his private home.

According to residents of the FOVISSTE housing unit, shortly after 9 a.m., a group of unidentified armed men knocked on the door of a person identified as José Alejandro Ortega Carrillo, 35, and without saying a word, they shot him several times, killing him instantly. .

Elements of the three government orders, as well as experts from the prosecution, immediately went to Crucero Street where they located the body and transferred it to the Semefo facilities to carry out the legal autopsy.

The victim worked as a director of control and quality in the city council chaired by the Morenista Abelina López Rodríguez, and who, after learning the unfortunate facts, condemned the devious crime against his official through messages on his social networks.

Acapulco now ranks fifth among the nation’s 50 most violent cities, although for the past ten months authorities have been mounting operations with federal and state forces to police the streets.

Not only murders are recorded in the streets of this port, but also extortion of traders and businessmen, transporters and service providers on the beaches.

On the same Acapulco’s most famous beaches as Caleta, Caletilla and Manzanillo and in front of tourists, gunmen murdered service providers.

Collectives of disappeared and murdered in this tourist destination assure that since 2006, the disappearances of people have not stopped.