State authorities are investigating a shootout that occurred Thursday, January 26 on the Morelia-Jocotepec highway on the outskirts of El Molino, leaving three men dead.
At approximately 12:50 p.m., Jocotepec police responded to a report of gunshots heard in the vicinity of Rancho La Estampida. Officers arriving at the scene discovered a white SUV with Estado de México license tags abandoned at the side of the road. Inside the vehicle they found two deceased males and several assault rifles. The corpse of a third man was detected on the ground a few meters from the vehicle. All of the bodies had visible gunshot wounds that caused their deaths.
First responders guarded the scene until agents from the Special Regional Prosecutor’s Office and Investigative Police arrived to take command of the multiple homicide case. Experts from the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences were also called in to collect evidence, while personnel from the Forensic Medical Service took charge of transporting the bodies to the morgue, for identification and autopsies.
Following the discovery, police officers began an immediate search of the vicinity, but could find no trace of the unknown assailants who presumably fled into the nearby hills.