Sicarios attack man in car in Culiacan, then return to finish him off in front of witnesses (video)

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Sinembargo article

Subject Matter: Execution in Culiacan
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This Wednesday afternoon, close to the entrance of the Canaco Fraccionamiento in Culiacan, Sinaloa, a victim had been shot and left wounded, but the gunmen returned to finish him off.

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In the presence of various witnesses, a man was assassinated by gunfire by sicarios that minutes before had been left shot and wounded by car to car attack, when he was driving along the Jose Limon Boulevard opposite the Canaco Fraccionamiento.

The dead man was identified by ministerial authorities as Francisco Javier "N", 32 years of age, who has a domicile in the Fraccionamiento Villa Real and was driving a Mercedes Benz with Durango registration plates.

The homicide happened around 14:30 Wednesday, when the man was driving along the Jose Limon Boulevard and in this moment armed persons aboard another vehicle opened fire on him.

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Some witnesses to the events commented to authorities that in an effort to save his own life, the man accelerated his vehicle to escape the sicarios. However he hit a tree, which stopped his vehicle and the sicarios fled.

Minutes after, persons who were close to the scene surrounded the vehicle where the victim was still showing vital signs, as shown in the above video, witnesses had called the emergency services.

At this moment the sicarios returned to the scene shouting at those onlookers to step back and commenced firing again at the man who was killed in the passenger front seat.

Some minutes after, at the scene, the agents of diverse agencies and police corporations arrived, who cordoned off the crime scene, while experts from the Attorneys Generals Office of the State arrived to log the evidence of the homicide.