“They acted from inside the prisons where they are being held for various crimes,” Murillo said of the two inmates accused of the attack.
It is being investigated whether requests made by one of the inmates to the judge were the ones that triggered the attack.
Roberto Elías Martínez, a judge in Zacatecas, died Sunday morning after being shot at in front of his home, confirmed Arturo Nahle García, president of the state judiciary.
“The murder of Judge Roberto Elías Martínez outrages us and adds to the desperate demand for peace in Zacatecas. We embrace his family, ”the public servant published on his Twitter account.
Martínez was attacked when he was leaving his home in Real del Sol, Guadalupe municipality; upon getting into his vehicle, he received two bullets to the head at around 7:00 am on Saturday.
The president magistrate of the Judiciary of Zacatecas asked the Attorney General of the State of Zacatecas to investigate the facts so that those responsible for the murder of the judge do not go unpunished.
