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Gunmen Were Paid $6,000 to Kill Mexican Mayor
 EFE
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October 01, 2010
Monterrey, Mexico – The two men who gunned down the mayor of the northern Mexican town of Doctor Gonzalez were paid $6,000 for the deed, Nuevo Leon state Attorney General Alejandro Garza y Garza said here Thursday.
He spoke at a press conference in Monterrey, the state capital, just hours after the arrest of the two suspects in the Sept. 23 slaying of Mayor Prisciliano Rodriguez Salinas.
Omar Villarreal Lopez and nephew Pedro Caballero Gutierrez killed the official on the orders of Arnulfo Gutierrez Chapa, the attorney general said, attributing the murder to a dispute over land.
Gutierrez Chapa paid the men $3,000 in advance and provided them with guns and a vehicle to carry out the hit, Garza y Garza said.
Besides Rodriguez Salinas, Villareal and Caballero killed one of the mayor’s assistants, apparently because he “could identify them,” the attorney general said.
He said Gutierrez Chapa was tipped off about his impending arrest and managed to flee before he could be taken into custody.
The murder of Rodriguez Salinas came a little more than a month after Mayor Edelmiro Cavazos of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, was abducted and slain by gunmen with help from corrupt police.
Eleven mayors have been murdered in Mexico so far this year and authorities say most of those killings are part of the drug-related violence that has claimed more than 28,000 lives nationwide since late 2006.
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