US EditionOrganized crime believed involved in killing of popular Mexican mayor by teenage gunman
Victor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales, a 17-year-old meth addict, was identified as the killer amid organized crime violence that has claimed seven mayors in Michoacán in three years.
- On Saturday, Uruapan Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo was shot seven times in the town's historic center during Day of the Dead festivities and later died at a hospital.
- Organized crime activity in Michoacan shows mayors are vulnerable as groups seek control to traffic drugs and extort, with the teenage attacker a known methamphetamine addict, state authorities said Thursday.
- Michoacan state prosecutor Carlos Torres Piña named the gunman as 17-year-old Víctor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales, who was killed by the mayor's security detail, and investigators linked the weapon to two earlier clashes between rival organized crime groups in Michoacan.
- The announcement came one day after Manzo's wife assumed the mayoralty, and local officials in Michoacan noted seven mayors have been killed in Michoacan over three years.
- In recent months, Carlos Alberto Manzo had appealed to Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum for help, but federal troops sent to Michoacan have not curbed the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Familia Michoacana.
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17-year-old meth addict identified as Uruapan mayor's assassin
The person who was shot dead after allegedly killing the mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, last Saturday has been identified as a 17-year-old boy from an adjacent municipality. Michoacán Attorney General Carlos Torres Piña said in a video message on Thursday that on Wednesday afternoon the body of “the perpetrator” of the murder of Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez was identified and claimed by members of his family. Uruapan artists created a mura…
Tests showed that he had taken drugs before killing Carlos Manso, a common practice among cartels.
Teenager identified as killer of assassinated Mexican mayor
MEXICO CITY -A 17-year-old boy has been confirmed as the perpetrator of the deadly shooting of Carlos Manzo, mayor of the Mexican city of Uruapan, during a public event in the state of Michoacan over the weekend, the state prosecutor's office said on Thursday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Organized crime believed involved in killing of popular Mexican mayor by teenage gunman
A 17-year-old methamphetamine addict has been identified as the gunman who killed Uruapan Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo in western Mexico.
By Uriel Blanco, CNN en Español. The Michoacán Attorney General's Office identified a 17-year-old on Thursday as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo, which occurred Saturday night at the end of the local Candle Festival celebrations. “Yesterday afternoon, Wednesday, November 5, the body of the perpetrator of this homicide was identified and claimed. He is Víctor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales, 17 years old, originally from…
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