Juan Carlos Hernández Cortés, deputy director of the governorate of the municipality of Rafael Delgado, Veracruz, and his escort, were gunned down and burned inside a vehicle early this Sunday, April 17.
The official and the police officer guarding him were intercepted by assassins as they traveled in a blue Chevrolet Trax van along the state highway known as “Las Sirenas”, where the attackers on board vehicles fired on several occasions at their victims and set fire to the van.
After they had riddled the officials, the hit men fled aboard the vehicles in which they were traveling in an unknown direction. Municipal and state police were alerted by neighbors when the shots were heard.
Juan Carlos's wife was the one who identified her husband to the ministerial authorities. The policeman accompanying him was identified as Juan Carlos Hernández Cortes. The events occurred on Rafael Guzmán street, after the deputy director of the interior was allegedly consuming intoxicating drinks in a local area.
Personnel from the Orizaba Prosecutor's Office and criminal experts from the Department of Expert Services transferred the bodies to the Forensic Medical Service and initiated an investigation to determine how the events occurred.
On April 5, a confrontation between Veracruz state police and suspected hit men left four civilians killed, who would be part of the criminal gang led by a subject identified as El Bukanas, according to statements by the entity's governor, Cuitláhuac Garcia.
elements of the State Police of Veracruz were carrying out preventive work on the federal highway Orizaba-Tehuacán, at the height of the town known as El Mezquite, where they noticed the presence of a beige vehicle with “suspicious” people inside.
The subjects traveling in the Ford Explorer van with Mexico State license plates refused to stop despite the fact that uniformed men repeatedly marked their car, so they started a high-speed chase on the highway.
After minutes of pursuit, the uniformed and suspected hit men exchanged gunfire while civilians tried to leave the road at the height of the town of El Potrero. The confrontation resulted in the death of four men, while one more, identified as Gonzalo “N”, was wounded by bullets and was transferred to a hospital in the municipality of Río Blanco as a detainee.
The authorities secured three handguns and one long gun, in addition to the vehicle in which the subjects were transported; the confiscated was placed at the disposal of the Regional Prosecutor of Justice of the 15th district of Veracruz to integrate the investigation folder for the case.
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