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CTV National News: Mass Shooting at Teotihuacan Pyramids Was a Planned Attack: Mexican Authorities
Mexican officials said the gunman made preliminary visits and stayed nearby before opening fire, killing one Canadian tourist and injuring 13 others.
- 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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Mexico pyramid shooter planned attack, fixated on US massacre
The gunman who killed a Canadian tourist and wounded 13 others at Mexico's famed Teotihuacan pyramids had planned the attack days in advance, officials said Tuesday, as evidence pointed to him being inspired by a US massacre.
An attack resulted in one death and 13 injuries on Monday at the tourist site of Teotihuacan, Mexico. The perpetrator of the shootings died after the incident.
On Monday, April 20, a man opened fire at one of the most visited archaeological sites in Mexico, the pyramids of Teotihuacan. A young Canadian woman was killed and thirteen others were injured. According to the first investigations, the shooter, psychologically fragile, was reportedly planning his attack. Less than two months before the start of the World Cup, while the country is about to receive more than five million supporters, the issue of…
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Mexico pyramid shooting was planned attack, officials say
Mexican authorities said Tuesday that the man who killed a Canadian woman and wounded 13 others the day before at the famed Teotihuacan pyramids had planned the attack in advance.
Mexico temple gunman ranted about pyramid's gruesome history to hostages: ‘Don’t move, or I’ll sacrifice you’
The gunman who killed a Canadian tourist and wounded several other people at Mexico's ancient pyramids on Monday reportedly bragged about sacrificing his victims, according to a video taken by one of his hostages. Julio César Jasso, 27, who was reportedly obsessed with Adolf Hitler, shouted as he pointed a gun at the terrified tourists atop the Pyramid of the Moon at Mexico’s Teotihuacan ruins, just outside Mexico City. "Don’t move, or I’ll sacr…
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