MEXICO CITY — No less than 4 individuals had been concerned within the killing of the private secretary and an in depth adviser of Mexico Metropolis ’s Mayor Clara Brugada, the capital’s police chief stated Wednesday, as extra particulars emerged of the worst assault in opposition to public officers within the capital in recent times.
Pablo Vázquez Camacho stated investigators had recognized and located a bike and two different automobiles used within the escape of the gunman who killed the 2 officers Tuesday morning as they travelled in a car alongside a busy thoroughfare.
Brugada’s private secretary, Ximena Guzmán, and an adviser, José Muñoz, had been shot lifeless in Guzmán’s automobile, authorities stated.
Mexico Metropolis chief prosecutor Bertha Alcalde Luján stated the gunman had fled on a bike that was hidden close by after which modified automobiles twice as he and others fled into neighboring Mexico State.
Garments had been recovered within the automobiles and had been being analyzed, however investigators couldn’t but provide a attainable motive, the prosecutor stated.
She stated Guzmán was shot eight instances and Muñoz 4 instances.
The assault, which occurred at round 7 a.m., left 4 bullet holes clustered on the motive force’s facet of the windshield. One physique lay on the pavement.
President Claudia Sheinbaum, who’s an ally of Brugada and a former mayor of Mexico Metropolis earlier than profitable the presidency final 12 months, had declined to take a position on the attainable involvement of organized crime throughout her press briefing earlier Wednesday.
