Aunt, cousin of Mexico's education secretary killed in their home

Authorities successful the occidental Mexican authorities of Colima said they killed 3 radical suspected successful the shooting deaths of 2 household members of Mexico's caput of acquisition connected Saturday.

Colima, located connected Mexico's Pacific coast, is 1 of the country's astir convulsive states. It recorded the highest homicide complaint successful Mexico successful 2023 and 2024, according to the US State Department.

The section prosecutor's bureau said officers killed 3 suspects successful the 4:30 americium (1030 GMT) shooting of 2 women, whom Mexico's Secretary of Public Education Mario Delgado aboriginal identified arsenic his aunt and cousin.

They did not place a motive successful the shooting oregon accidental whether they were searching for different suspects.

"Deep shock, outrage, and sorrow implicit the events that occurred this greeting successful Colima, wherever my aunt Eugenia Delgado and my relative Sheila were brutally murdered successful their home," Delgado wrote connected X connected Saturday.

"Throughout my full childhood, my aunt Queña —as we affectionately called her— made my day barroom each year. That was however she earned her living, moving hard, selling delicious cakes and accepted Colima nutrient prepared similar lone she knew how. She is present with my grandparents and with my father, her beloved brother," helium wrote connected X.

Officials tracked the suspects' conveyance to a Colima location connected Saturday day and killed 3 radical successful a gunfight, according to the prosecutor's office.

Investigators recovered weapons and covering successful the suspects' location linked to the treble shooting.

Delgado was appointed acquisition caput by President Claudia Sheinbaum successful 2024 and his profile photograph connected X shows some of them together.  He antecedently served arsenic nationalist president of the ruling Morena party.

Mario Delgado, Mexico's Secretary of Public Education, accompanies Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico, during a property league astatine the National Palace successful Mexico City, Mexico, connected January 3, 2026.  Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Last month, Sheinbaum said that efforts to ace down connected Mexican cartels and dilatory migration northbound were showing "compelling results" successful an effort to caput disconnected involution speech by the Trump administration.

Her comments came aft President Trump threatened enactment against Mexican cause cartels by U.S. forces past week. Mr. Trump told Fox News that the United States had "knocked retired 97% of the drugs coming successful by water" and that the U.S. was "going to commencement present hitting land, with respect to the cartels." 

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