Clues emerge after officials shot dead on street in Mexico City

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The murders of two Mexico City officials, successful a rush-hour shooting connected a engaged avenue, were meticulously planned by experienced gunmen, prosecutors said Wednesday, arsenic much details emerged of the worst onslaught against nationalist officials successful the superior successful caller years.

At slightest 4 radical were progressive successful the killing of the idiosyncratic caput and a adjacent adviser of Mexico City's Mayor Clara Brugada, the capital's constabulary main said Wednesday.

Pablo Vázquez Camacho said investigators had identified and recovered a motorcycle and 2 different vehicles utilized successful the flight of the gunman who killed the 2 officials Tuesday greeting arsenic they traveled successful a conveyance on a engaged thoroughfare.

Brugada's idiosyncratic secretary, Ximena Guzmán, and an adviser, José Muñoz, were changeable dormant successful Guzmán's car, authorities said.

Mexico City main authoritative Bertha Alcalde Luján said the gunman had fled connected a motorcycle that was hidden adjacent and past changed vehicles doubly arsenic helium and others fled into neighboring Mexico State.

Clothes were recovered successful the vehicles and were being analyzed, but investigators could not yet connection a imaginable motive, the authoritative said. She said Guzmán was changeable 8 times and Muñoz 4 times.

Alcalde said that fixed the circumstances, investigators judge "it was a nonstop onslaught and with an important grade of readying and those who killed them had erstwhile experience."

One fishy was seen carrying retired surveillance of the victims successful the country of the onslaught successful preceding days, she added.

Still, she said investigators could not yet suggest a motive oregon accidental who was down the killings.

"We cannot reason that this is tied to organized crime, overmuch little talk present of a peculiar organized transgression group," Alcalde said.

Both officials said Wednesday that investigators had detected the beingness of an idiosyncratic astatine the tract of the attacks days earlier they occurred, which would suggest cognition of the victims' routines.

The attack, which happened astatine astir 7 a.m., near 4 slug holes clustered connected the driver's broadside of the windshield. One assemblage laic connected the pavement.

Vázquez Camacho said that neither Guzmán nor Muñoz had immoderate peculiar information measures, but some had received grooming astir protecting themselves.

"They are radical who worked precise intimately with the radical ... and they did their enactment without fear," helium said.

President Claudia Sheinbaum, who is an state of Brugada and a erstwhile politician of Mexico City earlier winning the presidency past year, had declined to speculate connected the imaginable engagement of organized transgression during her property briefing earlier Wednesday.

Passersby picture "trauma"

At the country of the onslaught Wednesday morning, hundreds of commuters passed with astir oblivious to what had occurred a time earlier. Some, however, noticed the handwritten signs with messages of remembrance to the 2 victims and flowers and candles near connected the sidewalk.

University pupil Loretta García Oriz said she had passed the tract Tuesday erstwhile Guzmán and Muñoz's bodies were inactive astatine the scene. "Passing present gives maine the aforesaid trauma," she said Wednesday.

Oscar Sánchez's taco basal isn't acold from the transgression scene, but said Wednesday helium didn't cognize what had happened until different vendor told him and constabulary began to acceptable up a perimeter. The onslaught showed that it doesn't substance if you're an authoritative oregon an mean person, helium said. "It's each the same."

Pablo Vazquez, the city's constabulary chief, said that successful caller weeks authorities had made "very important arrests of leaders of transgression cells" successful the capital.

"These arrests volition continue, and the dismantling of transgression cells volition continue," helium told reporters.

Mexico City's politician is considered 2nd successful governmental value lone to the president. The mayor's bureau has agelong been a stepping chromatic to the presidency, thing existent for Sheinbaum and her predecessor.

But for years, the thought has prevailed of Mexico City arsenic a comparatively peaceful oasis protected from the brutal cause cartel unit prevalent successful different parts of the country. There has ever been thoroughfare crime, but the cartels, portion present, maintained a little illustration successful the capital.

That illusion was partially dashed successful 2020 with the brazen ambush of Mexico City's past constabulary main connected different cardinal boulevard. Omar García Harfuch was wounded, but 2 bodyguards and a bystander were killed successful the onslaught involving much than 20 radical and dense weaponry.

García Harfuch, who is present Sheinbaum's nationalist information minister, instantly blamed the Jalisco New Generation Cartel for the attack.

There had not been different specified onslaught connected nationalist officials successful the superior since then.

But politicians and their supporters are often targeted elsewhere successful Mexico.

Earlier this month, a mayoral campaigner and 3 different radical were shot dead at a run lawsuit successful the eastbound Mexican authorities of Veracruz. Like Mexico City's mayor, Yesenia Lara was a subordinate of President Sheinbaum's Morena party.

In April, Jose Luis Pereira, a elder subordinate of the Teocaltiche metropolis government, was shot and killed while eating astatine a edifice successful Jalisco.

In December 2024, a Mexican congressman who was a subordinate of the ruling conjugation was shot dead in Veracruz.

Two pistillate politicians were targeted soon aft Sheinbaum took office. In June 2024, a local councilwoman was gunned down arsenic she was leaving her location successful Guerrero. Her execution came a fewer days aft the politician of a municipality successful occidental Mexico and her bodyguard were killed extracurricular of a gym, conscionable hours aft Sheinbaum was elected president.

Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.

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