The Prosecutor’s Office detailed in a brief statement that an investigation file has already been launched to find those responsible for the murder.
“The State Attorney General’s Office reports that, derived from the events recorded in the Piedra Blancas town, belonging to this municipality in which the victim JCMC, former mayor of Zongolica, was deprived of his life, an investigation file has been initiated through the Córdoba Regional Prosecutor’s Office,” he detailed.
Minutes before, the death was reported on the Facebook account of former mayor Juan Carlos Mezhua:
“Juan Carlos was a man of integrity and a lot of political work, a great human being. We ask everyone to raise a prayer for his eternal rest,” they wrote on networks and condemned the murder.
In his last Facebook post, Mezhua published a video where he shared progress of the independent party he was forming and announced his intentions to hold a membership day.
In the last elections, he tried to become governor through independent means.
