US EditionMexico Says Teotihuacán Pyramid Shooting Was Planned; 1 Canadian Killed
Authorities say the gunman made multiple site visits and stayed in nearby hotels before the attack that killed one Canadian and injured 13.
- On Monday, a gunman killed one Canadian and wounded 13 others at the Teotihuacán pyramids near Mexico City before dying by suicide; authorities identified the suspect as 27-year-old Julio Cesar Jasso Ramirez.
- Mexico State Prosecutor Jose Luis Cervantes Martinez said Jasso "planned his violent acts" after preliminary visits to the site; officials believe the attack was timed to the 27th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting.
- Witness Brenda Lee, a tourist from Vancouver, said tourists initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks; she described those forced to take cover as "sitting ducks," with no protection from the bullets.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney offered condolences on Tuesday, while Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand stated Canadian officials are assisting affected families; Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum urged tighter security at tourist sites.
- Barely seven weeks before Mexico City hosts the World Cup's opening match on June 11, Sheinbaum stated, "We need to have better security to make sure someone can't enter an archaeological site, a tourist site, with a firearm.
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It is 11 a.m. in Teotihuacán when the first tourists enter the archaeological area. On a normal day the site opens its doors at 8 a.m., but a security operative of the National Guard inside has delayed access this Wednesday. Early tourists waited up to three hours to enter. Some, like Hana, 62, who traveled from Japan, arrived at the site without knowing that just two days ago Julio César Jasso Ramírez went up armed to the Pyramid of the Moon to…
“This was built for sacrifice, you bastards, not for you to come here and take your fucking shitty photos.” “You, stop staring at me so much, you don’t look death in the eye,” was part of what Julio César Jasso Ramírez shouted to his hostages last Monday morning at the Teotihuacan pyramids. Videos recorded by some of the tourists atop the Pyramid of the Moon, and shared on social media, show the 27-year-old man yelling insults at them and mimic…
Mexico pyramid shooter Julio César Jasso planned Teotihuacán massacre for 2 months, had picture in hotel room showing scene of attack: reports
The crazed Nazi-sympathizing gunman who killed a Canadian tourist and injured 13 others after opening fire from atop a pyramid at Mexico’s Teotihuacán ruins plotted the attack for two months – and studied an image of the tourist hotspot that was in his hotel room. Julio César Jasso sent text messages in February, asking about...
The investigation into the shooting costing the lives of a Canadian tourist at the Teotihuacan pyramid site reveals a premeditation of the assailant, pushing the Mexican authorities to strengthen
The shooting on the site of the Teotihuacan pyramids had been "planned" by the shooter who then killed himself.
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