Ciudad Serdán, Puebla: With Gunfire, They Take The Lives Of Five People

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

The crime pertains to a settling of accounts. 

This Thursday, four men and one woman were killed with firearms in Ciudad Serdán, a district belonging to the municipality of Chalchicomula de Sesma.

In the early hours of this day, the emergency services were alerted to the presence of four people lying on the road profusely bleeding out. 

Members of the Municipal Police went to the crime scene, located on Hilario Galicia Oriente street, in the vicinity of the Santa Ana housing unit, within the La Gloria neighborhood, and took witness statements.

According to residents of the area, several shots were heard, and after that, they looked out into the street where they saw the bodies of four men and one woman.

Due to the above, paramedics carried out a review of the victims, who were dead due to the bullet wounds received, the municipal elements proceeded to cordon off the area. While the staff of the State Attorney General's Office (FGE) arrived to carry out the removal of the corpses.

The bodies were admitted to the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo), where a rigorous autopsy will be performed on each cadaver. It is expected that they will be claimed by their relatives.

So far the motive for the attack is unknown, however, a settling of scores isn’t being ruled out, due to the characteristics of the event.

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