Morena councilor shot, husband killed in attack in Tecate

A municipal councilor successful Tecate, Baja California, was hospitalized successful the United States connected Tuesday aft she was severely wounded successful an equipped onslaught successful which her hubby was killed.

Morena enactment Councilor María de Jesús Quijada and her hubby Jesús Pereida came nether onslaught Tuesday day portion traveling successful a conveyance successful Tecate, a metropolis of astir 110,000 radical connected Mexico’s bluish border.

The couple’s 15-year-old girl and a bodyguard were besides wounded successful the attack, perpetrated by a radical of equipped men, nary of whom was instantly arrested. The perpetrators fled the country successful a achromatic vehicle, according to section authorities. The conveyance was subsequently acceptable alight, the paper Reforma reported.

Pereida, a erstwhile national and municipal information official, died astatine the country of the attack, portion Quijada was reportedly taken by ambulance to the borderline with the United States earlier being flown by chopper to Sharp Memorial Hospital successful San Diego. The couple’s 15-year-old daughter, who was reportedly connected her mode to a schoolhouse graduation with her parents, was besides hospitalized.

The councilor was reportedly changeable astatine slightest erstwhile successful the head. Later connected Tuesday, Quijada’s begetter told reporters helium had been notified that his girl and granddaughter were “out of danger.”

The motive for the transgression was not instantly clear. Attacks connected municipal officials are reasonably communal successful Mexico, particularly successful parts of the state wherever determination is simply a beardown organized transgression presence.

During the word of the existent government, which took bureau successful October 2024, 13 mayors person been murdered, Uno TV reported this week.

Among the victims are Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo, who was assassinated during a Day of the Dead lawsuit past November, and Joel Ángel Bravo Martínez, a politician successful the Mixtec portion of Oaxaca who was killed past month.

With reports from La Jornada, Reforma, El Financiero and Zeta Tijuana