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Authorities confirm that Cuén Ojeda was shot at a gas station

Irene Sanchez

Correspondent

The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, August 13, 2024, p. 4

Mazatlán, Sinaloa, The Attorney General’s Office (FGE) of Sinaloa released a video in which, according to the institution’s version, the moment in which the elected federal deputy and former rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Héctor Melesio Cuén Ojeda, was shot on the night of July 25.

The video shows a man getting off a motorcycle, opening the passenger door of a pickup truck and shooting another person, who was taken to a hospital where he was reported dead.

Two days ago Ismael The May Zambada, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, said in a letter that Cuén Ojeda was killed on the morning of July 25, in the same place where the criminal boss was kidnapped and then taken to the United States, where he is at the disposal of the authorities of that country.

At a press conference held yesterday, prosecutor Sara Quiñonez Estrada announced that the case will be transferred to the Attorney General’s Office at the express request of said federal institution, which will continue the investigations.

The material is part of the research folder

This is the first time that this video, which is part of the investigation file, has been shown.the official said. In the recording, a van can be seen arriving and parking at one of the pumps at the gas station known as La Placita, in northern Culiacán.

Quiñonez Estrada explained that for the FGE the line of investigation into the attempted carjacking is based on the statement of the main witness of the attack, Fausto Ernesto Corrales, who was accompanying Cuén Ojeda, and on the video.

He said that the witness had been summoned for next Wednesday, but this was no longer valid when the Federation began investigating the murder.

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