State official and former mayor killed by gunfire on Guerrero highway

A lawman curate successful the Guerrero authorities authorities was murdered connected Tuesday portion traveling connected a road adjacent Chilpancingo, the authorities capital.

Hossein Nabor Guillén, lawman payment curate for societal argumentation successful the authorities of Governor Evelyn Salgado, was changeable and killed by unidentified gunmen portion driving connected the Chilpancingo-Tlapa road successful the municipality of Tixtla.

Nabor was serving arsenic lawman payment curate for societal argumentation successful the Guerrero authorities authorities of Gov. Evelyn Salgado astatine the clip of his death. (@QueCosaNoticias/on X)

The Guerrero Attorney General’s Office said connected societal media that it is investigating the crime, but didn’t supply further details. The motive for the onslaught was not instantly clear.

The execution reportedly occurred astatine astir 6:45 p.m. connected Tuesday adjacent a car dealership and pozole edifice successful the municipality of Tixtla, located astir 17 kilometers eastbound of Chilpancingo.

Nabor, politician of Tixtla betwixt 2015 and 2018, began his tenure arsenic lawman payment curate erstwhile Salgado took bureau successful precocious 2021. He near the presumption past twelvemonth to contention the authorities predetermination arsenic a campaigner for lawman for the Morena party, but returned to the occupation successful February.

Salgado conveyed her condolences to Nabor’s household successful a societal media post.

“His passing leaves a large void successful our hearts,” she wrote. “Hossein was a antheral committed to the causes of the people, generous, supportive, and ever consenting to service others. His representation volition unrecorded connected everlastingly among those of america who had the privilege of walking by his side. Rest successful peace,”

Nabor was reportedly adjacent to Salgado’s father, national Senator Félix Salgado, who backed the now-deceased official’s candidacy successful the 2024 authorities predetermination successful Guerrero. The lawman payment curate was aiming to correspond Tixtla successful the authorities Congress, but mislaid the predetermination connected June 2, 2024.

A arguable photo 

Nabor’s main rival for the Tixtla lawman presumption was Jorge Iván Ortega, present a authorities lawmaker who represents the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). Nabor was a subordinate of the PRD earlier switching his allegiance to Morena, the enactment founded by erstwhile president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Ortega is the nephew of Celso Ortega, identified arsenic the person of the transgression radical Los Ardillos, which “dominates transgression enactment successful the cardinal portion of Guerrero,” according to the Reforma newspaper.

In May 2024, during the run play starring up to the election, a photograph emerged of Nabor and Celso Ortega sharing a hug successful a Chilpancingo restaurant. Former Chilpancingo politician Norma Otilia Hernández Martínez was expelled from the Morena enactment aft it came to airy that she had met with Celso Ortega, but Nabor didn’t endure the aforesaid fate.

According to the paper La Jornada, Nabor was accused of allowing Los Ardillos to run successful and astir Tixtla erstwhile helium was politician of the municipality.

Guerrero is 1 of Mexico’s astir convulsive states, signaling 870 homicides successful the archetypal 7 months of 2025, according to information presented by the national authorities past month.

Nabor shared a hug with cartel person Celso Ortega successful a photograph that caused contention erstwhile it became nationalist successful 2024, but led to nary consequences for Nabor. (@PandaDelAmor19/X)

Since Salgado became politician successful October 2021, 4 mayors, 1 mayor-elect and 7 erstwhile mayors person been murdered successful Guerrero, the El Universal paper reported.

Among those killed was Alejandro Arcos Catalán, who was murdered past October conscionable six days aft helium took bureau arsenic the politician of Chilpancingo.

With reports from Reforma, El Universal, El Financiero and La Jornada