Bodyguard Killed During Zapopan Shootout Identified as a Former Military Police Corporal

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

The deceased escort was left lifeless aboard a Police Interceptor-type vehicle with ESC-12AE license plates from Mexico City, marked as an "escort vehicle".

Juan Carlos Ayala López was a former Corporal of the Mexican Army of the First Battalion of the Military Police of the Presidential Guards Corps. He was serving as a bodyguard for a businessman in the textile industry and the automotive industry that was said to be the target of CJNG hitmen.

The private escort died this Sunday, October 2, during the attempted kidnapping and shooting that took place near the Landmark shopping center, in the Puerta de Hierro neighborhood, in Zapopan, Jalisco.

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President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, lamented the shooting on Monday and pointed to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) as the criminal group that was behind the attempted kidnapping of the businessman, whose name has not been revealed.

“According to the preliminary report, they wanted to kidnap a person and they clashed with the escorts. The shooting began and the army intervened (...) Unfortunately, there was one person who lost his life. The injured are from both groups, both the escorts and the criminal aggressors. It seems that he is a businessman who is dedicated to the purchase and sale of vehicles, ”explained this Monday, at the National Palace, the Mexican president.

According to local press reports, the relatives of the other security guard, oblivious to the events and who was injured, requested blood donations for Luis Iván Villalobos López, 28, through social networks.

"At the Puerta de Hierro Hospital they are urgently requesting, 0 negative blood for a victim of yesterday's shooting," detailed the publication, where they detailed that he is in serious condition at the Puerta de Hierro Hospital.

“ He immediately tried to protect the people who were running. So, a bullet went through his intestines, and others broke the tibia and fibula of one leg, ”the relatives specified.

The Jalisco prosecutor, Luis Joaquín Méndez Ruiz, confirmed that the balance of the shootout between the military and drug traffickers in the vicinity of the Landmark shopping center, located in the Puerta de Hierro neighborhood, in Zapopan, Jalisco, left one dead and six injured.

Among the injured are a young woman, a food delivery person, a private security guard, a private escort, and two alleged assailants. One of those affected is treated at the Military Hospital, four at the Puerto de Hierro Hospital and one more did not require a transfer.

The head of the Emergency Medical Care System (SAMU), Dr. Yannick Nordín Servín, reported that they were identified as Cirilo González Mancilla, 45, who had a bullet wound in the right buttock; Iván Villalobos, 30 years old, with two impacts, one in the abdomen and the other in the left leg; Luis Raúl Villareal, 45 years old, with an impact on the humerus; Karla Araceli Plascencia Alvizu, 19, with a neck wound; Antonio Israel Hernández Montoya, 25, with a right knee injury; and an unidentified man with a sprained ankle injury, who was seen tripping during the last part of the shootout on video.

Sources Infobae, Borderland Beat

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