After days of not listening to from their cherished one, members of the family recognized the physique of a teen who had simply turned 17. The teen was discovered after a number of days spent in a metropolis morgue following a shootout with authorities in the Mexican border state of Coahuila. The teen was considered one of two gunmen killed when a lot of gunmen tried to enter the area.
The shootout occurred final weekend close to town of Hidalgo, Coahuila. The area the place the assault occurred is a spot the place gunmen routinely leap between the states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. The three states all share a border with Texas. This distinctive geographic form has created a jurisdictional nightmare for Mexican authorities since gunmen can perform assaults in one state and cross the border to the neighboring states.
On the day of the assault, a gaggle of gunmen in a number of automobiles had crossed into Coahuila by a rural filth street and encountered a patrol of Coahuila state police forces. The officers clashed with the gunmen and referred to as for backup. After an intense shootout, the cops compelled the gunmen to flee however have been in a position to kill two of them and arrest eight others, together with two ladies.
A state choose in Coahuila formally charged the eight gunmen with a number of weapons and drug costs and ordered they be held with out bond.
During the week, a relative of an underage teenager named Alexis Gomez Torres contacted authorities in Coahuila and was in a position to establish him as one of many gunmen killed in the assault. Gomez Torres was initially from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, a metropolis thought-about the stronghold of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.
As Breitbart Texas reported, in 2019, the CDN-Los Zetas despatched over 100 gunmen to hold out terrorist-style assaults in Villa Union, Coahuila. After hours of shootouts with police, authorities managed to push the gunmen again to Tamaulipas. Tthe combating led to greater than 24 casualties — together with 17 gunmen. In the aftermath, authorities officers referred to as the assault “terrorist” in nature, meant to unfold panic amongst locals.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists prepared to threat their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face sure dying by the hands of the varied cartels that function in these areas together with the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym weren’t used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are printed in each English and their authentic Spanish. This article was written by “J.M. Martinez” from Coahuila.
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