What was supposed to be a weekend to honor and pay respects to the dead during the "Dia de los muertos" holiday turned into a gruesome scene after three people were killed and five others were injured in a shootout in central Mexico.
One of the deceased was a local leader of the folk saint cult known as "La Santa Muerte," a sect not linked to the Catholic church that pays respects to a female deity, always represented as a skeletal figure, that is supposed to be the personification of death.
