Tuesday, October 15

They assassinate a commander in Tijuana who previously received threats

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15 Oct 2024, 12:54 PM EDT

The city of Tijuana is a risk area because it is one of the main regions through which drugs and migrants are trafficked into the United States.

This has caused a constant fight between authorities and members of organized crime, in which unfortunately several officers have lost their liveswith a commander being one of the most recent victims.

It is about Gerardo González Zamoranowho lived in that border city, but was registered with the Prosecutor’s Office as head of the homicide area in the municipality of Tecate.

According to data recorded by media such as the weekly Proceso, the agent left his house and boarded his vehicle, where he was shot by unknown assailants who fled in a red car.

“The body was already found lifeless in the patio of his home, when the police officers arrived,” the Prosecutor’s Office reported in a statement, adding that His family was present when the attack occurred..

Gerardo González had more than 16 years of service and, recently, had been promoted in Tecate after working in the Homicide Prosecutor’s Office in Tijuana.

Apparently, the victim had received threats from organized crime, and The attackers left a piece of cardboard on his body with threats to other commanders of the same corporation.

Among her duties, she highlighted her participation in investigations related to the femicides perpetrated against the searcher Angelita Meraz León, president of the collective Unión y Fuerza por Nuestros Disappeared, and the teenager Ariday Rendón Zamora, 14, who was murdered while she was sleeping in his house, both occurred in the municipality of Tecate.

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