According to the " New York Post " report on the 26th, at a wedding in Mexico , the groom was shot and killed shortly after the official marriage ceremony of a couple, and the reason was that the drug cartel mistakenly recognized him as an enemy.
Marco Antonio and his wife Source: Twitter
According to the Mexico "El Universal", at around 5 pm local time on Saturday (22nd), 32-year-old computer engineer Marco Antonio was hit by multiple bullets while holding a wedding in a church in Caborca.
Witnesses later said that the gunman was an unidentified man who ran away along the street. The groom who was shot was pronounced dead while in the hospital.
Live video shows that the emotionally broken bride was escorted out of the church and her white wedding dress was stained with blood.
The bride's white wedding dress was stained with blood. Source: Twitter
Antonio's sister, 23-year-old Michelle Adriana, was hit in the back by a bullet. She was treated in the hospital and was discharged a few hours later.
On Sunday evening, Sonora state officials announced that an investigation into the case was underway. According to the state's attorney general's office, Antonio's cause of death was "direct attack", although they believed the gunman was originally targeting someone else.
The Attorney General's Office said in a statement: "Investigation shows that the attack on Marco Antonio was originally targeted by another person who was getting married in another nearby city at the same time." The groom who was shot in
was pronounced dead while sent to the hospital. Source: Twitter
Authorities said that on the same night, another man was also shot at a wedding in a nearby city.
The incident happened in northwest of Mexico. It is the base camp of a drug cartel of the same name as the place. The leader of the drug cartel is known as the "drug lord among drug lords" Rafael Caro Quintero (Rafael Caro Quintero). Carlo Gentro was arrested in July this year and awaited extradition to the United States for the murder of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985.
reported that as local drug trafficking organizations go to war with an armed branch of another drug trafficking group, Sinaloa, the violence related to drug trafficking has caused increasingly concern in Kaborka.
(Editor: ZLQ)
