Ex-governor of Mexico’s Jalisco state shot to dying

Jalisco state is home to the Jalisco New Era drug cartel, and the assault bore the hallmarks of a gang killing.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed condolences and stated the killing would be investigated “to uncover out the lead to, the motive” at the rear of the attack.

But López Obrador said that the investigation was the accountability of point out prosecutors. Usually, substantial-profile crimes potentially involving a drug cartel are taken more than by federal prosecutors.

The killer waited until finally Sandoval obtained up from a desk he was sharing with three other men and women, right before shooting him a number of times in the again. Solis said that while only one particular gunman fired at Sandoval, he may have been accompanied by as a lot of as 7 to nine accomplices who waited outside.

Sandoval was a member of the old ruling Institutional Innovative Occasion who governed the point out from 2013 to 2018.

Latest Gov. Enrique Alfaro named it a “direct assault,” suggesting the killer knew who he was targeting and was only intrigued in killing the ex-governor.

“What we just noticed was not simply a murder, it was a obstacle aimed against the government of Mexico,” Alfaro reported. “We will not be beaten down.”

Attacks in opposition to former governors are not unknown in Mexico in 2010, Silverio Cavazos — the previous governor of the neighboring condition of Colima — was shot to dying outdoors his dwelling,

Point out officials mentioned Sandoval had 15 police bodyguards assigned to him, as well as bulletproof automobiles. Two of the bodyguards had been current, but had been outdoors the restaurant when the attack transpired.

One of his bodyguards was wounded exterior in what seems to have been an trade of gunfire immediately after the attack, when persons attempted to choose Sandoval to a healthcare facility in which he died.

Solis claimed restaurant personnel cleaned up the crime scene, destroying possible evidence.