Mexico City Mayor’s Aides Shot Dead by Attackers on Motorbikes
Forensic investigators work at the crime scene of the killing of Jose Munoz and Ximena Guzman in Mexico City on May 20.
Photographer: Valentina Alpide/AFP/Getty ImagesTwo senior aides to Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada were shot dead Tuesday in the highest-profile political violence to strike the Latin American metropolis since cartel gunmen ambushed the capital’s former police chief five years ago.
Brugada’s private secretary Ximena Guzman and adviser Jose Muñoz were gunned down at point-blank range by assailants on a motorbike near a busy intersection in the borough of Benito Juarez in Mexico City. Video posted by local media showed a blood-stained curb along a street clogged with cars and buses, with yellow tape used to cordon off the area tied to a police car.