The hitmen fired bursts from assault rifles, which is why the bodies of four men and one woman were initially left at the scene, while three more people were left with serious gunshot wounds.
Local paramedics and agents of the Civil Guard (State Police), transferred the injured to various regional hospitals, where the death of another man was reported this Thursday.
Authorities from the Prosecutor’s Office revealed that so far they have only identified the bodies of a man and a woman, with the names of Daniela Z. and Jared Jesús G., 24 and 18 years old, respectively.
Agents of the Civil Guard of Michoacán, the National Guard and the Army maintain various operations in Sahuayo and in neighboring municipalities of Michoacán and Jalisco, in search of the armed group that perpetrated the attack.
The Michoacán Prosecutor’s Office indicated that the investigation of this attack contemplates various hypotheses, among which a possible revenge between drug cartels operating in the region stands out.
According to the intelligence areas of the Prosecutor’s Office and the Government of Michoacán, the criminal organizations of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), Cárteles Unidos, Los Caballeros Templarios and “Pájaros Sierra” operate in Sahuayo, the latter of which split from the group. Jalisco criminal.
Adrián López Solís, Attorney General of Michoacán, revealed that the FGE maintains the search for 20 leaders of drug cartels or criminal groups that operate in the different regions of Michoacán.
The multiple murder occurs days after reporting a year-on-year rise of 6.43% in homicides in January in Mexico, which last year registered 30,968 murders after the two most violent years in its history.
