Following the murder of popular Uruapan Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo, state authorities linked his brutal killing to organized crime.
The teenage attacker who carried out the assassination was a known methamphetamine addict and was shot and killed by the mayor’s security detail.
Michoacan state prosecutor Carlos Torres Piña named the gunman as 17-year-old Víctor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales, who was shot and killed by the mayor’s security detail.
