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| His name is Ángel Eduardo Rivera Mondaca and he was killed by gunfire from a Sedena helicopter. |
A second voice alerted on the radio the same thing and then again that of Hernández Leyva. “They are shooting at us here in La Campana, C4”. In the headquarters of the Command, Control, Communications, Computing, and Intelligence Center (C4I), they are told that they are trying to communicate with the headquarters.
But it was too late. The young State Police agent died in the attack.
The operation by the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) in coordination with the National Guard (GN) and the Attorney General’s Office was the capture of Ovidio “El Raton” Guzman Lopez of Los Chapitos/CDS in Jesús María, Sinaloa. The Secretary of State Public Security confirmed the death of agent Ángel Eduardo Rivera Mondaca, “who lost his life in the line of duty.”
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| Angel became a policeman just two years ago. |
Another source from the institution points out that the only people injured and killed in the State Police were shot by that helicopter. “If it hadn’t been for that mistake, the guys [army] comes out clean,” he says.
Two agents were transferred to Hospital Ángeles to be treated, but Rivera Mondaca’s injuries were too severe to be saved, and just before 2:00PM on Friday, January 6, the Security Secretary, Cristóbal Castañeda Camarillo, announced the news of his death.
But what the Secretary omitted was who caused his death.
At the start of his weekly press conference, Rubén Rocha Moya expressed his condolences to the family of Ángel Eduardo Rivera Mondaca. He asserted that he will be very attentive to the children and the family, and emphasized that they will receive compensation.
“First of all, I want to express my condolences to the family of police officer Ángel Rivera Mondaca from the city of Los Mochis, a state police officer killed in Thursday’s operation,” he stressed.