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Days In The Making: Authorities Reveal New Details in Double Homicide Of Mexico City Officials
- On May 20, 2025, Mexico City officials Ximena Guzmán and José Muñoz were shot dead in the Moderna neighborhood by gunmen on a motorcycle.
- Authorities revealed the attack involved at least four assailants and was planned over several days, with a suspect seen scouting the site earlier.
- Surveillance video captures a helmeted individual shooting the victims at very close proximity before escaping on a motorcycle, with authorities tracing the suspects' getaway vehicles into the neighboring Mexico State.
- Bertha Alcalde Luján, the chief prosecutor of Mexico City, described the incident as a well-planned and deliberate attack, while authorities apprehended seven individuals linked to three criminal groups operating locally.
- The killings may represent retaliation for the city's crackdown on organized crime and might affect ongoing anti-crime efforts led by Mayor Clara Brugada.
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Revenge for the Recent Captures of Capos: the Most Weighty Thesis in the Murder of Brugada's Collaborators
The lack of official information marks the passage of the murder of the two collaborators of the head of government of Mexico City, Clara Brugada. No one knows who pulled the trigger, why he did it, who gave the order to shoot. We know how: an anonymous hit man unloaded the 12 bullets of the nine-millimeter charger against Ximena Guzmán’s unshielded car. Eight shots ended in his body, the other four in that of his partner, José Muñoz, both from …
How Mexico City’s Murder of Senior Officials – Minnesota Press
How the assassination of senior officials in Mexico City undermines the image of a safe oasis in the capital (and the impact on President Sheinbaum) BBC correspondent News Mundo in Mexico- Daniel Pardo Claudia Sheinbaum was giving his press conference on Tuesday when his Secretary of Security Omar García Harfuch approached him and gave him the tragic news in a whisper: two senior officials of Mexico City’s mayor’s office had just been murdered. …
At Least 4 Subjects Participated in an Attack on Local Officials
The Attorney General's Office (FGJ) and the Ministry of Citizen Security (SSC) reported that at least four people participated in the murder of Ximena Guzmán and José Muñoz, the private secretary and coordinator of advisers to the head of government, Clara Brugada, two of whom were already identified and fled to the state of Mexico, so that they could request cooperation from the prosecutors' offices of that entity, as well as Hidalgo and Querét…
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