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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2006 
Man Gunned Down in Acapulco
 Associated Press
| | Two headless bodies sit bound beside a road in head sit in Acapulco, Mexico, Friday, June 30, 2006, which are believed to be associated with the two severed heads found in front of a Guerrero state government building. Authorities on Friday found two more human heads in front of a government office in this Pacific coast resort, a day after a similar grisly discovery was made outside the main entrance to City Hall. That makes six severed heads found in the tourist city this year, most with threatening messages linked to the drug trade. (AP/Gonzalo Perez) |
Acapulco, Mexico - A man was shot to death in front of Acapulco's City Hall and a naval officer was abducted Tuesday, the latest violence in this resort city hit by a wave of drug-related crime.
Oswaldo Moreno, 29, was attacked by a group of armed men who stopped him as he was driving near City Hall before dawn, police said. Moreno attempted to flee on foot but was shot four times, police said. A motive for the killing was not immediately known.
Police also said Lt. Marcelo Garcia, 45, was abducted later in the day by armed men who forced him into a van outside his home on the outskirts of the city.
The attacks came the day after Eusebio Palacios Ortiz, head of security for the Acapulco city government, was abducted while driving along the city's main tourist boulevard with his wife and daughter. He was still missing Tuesday.
Acapulco Mayor Felix Salgado said he would lead a march against violence this weekend.
"Our society is disgusted by these events," he said.
Acapulco, a Pacific resort 180 miles southwest of Mexico City, has been shaken this year by more than a dozen high-profile gun slayings as well as several grenade attacks on police stations.
Federal investigators link the violence to a turf war between drug gangs in northern Mexico for lucrative smuggling routes into the United States. |
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