Local media reported that an Hermosillo municipal police commander was killed yesterday by gunfire in a vehicle on Villa Flores Street near his home in the Villa Dorada neighborhood of Hermosillo.
His children, ages 15 and 16, were traveling with him and were able to exit the vehicle to seek assistance. They were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Commander César Alejandro García Medina oversaw police operations in Miguel Aleman with responsibility for the coast of Hermosillo, which includes Kino Bay. He had previously been the commander of a Tactical Operations Group in Hermosillo.
Witnesses reported that two vehicles were used in the assault, a Saturn and a Kia Sorento. The Sorento was found burned a few blocks away from the scene of the murder.
Several .223 and 9mm shells were recovered from the scene, and an investigation is ongoing.
The slaying follows an armed assault a week earlier, on April 15, in the tourism zone of San Carlos where a police officer was murdered and the tourism zone police commander was gravely injured by gunfire.