“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
A Tijuana Municipal Police officer, identified as Leon Bueno Loreto, was killed in an armed attack on Friday afternoon, November 24, in the Mirador Capistrano neighborhood. The incident occurred almost an hour after a unit of the State Attorney General’s Office was damaged after gunshots were fired.
According to information provided to ZETA, at 1:36 p.m. gunshots were fired at a man who was walking down Cristobal Colon Street in the aforementioned neighborhood.
Witnesses reported that at least 20 shots were heard and one person was injured.
Municipal Police and Red Cross paramedics arrived at the scene and observed a person with various injuries. However, he no longer had vital signs.
A source close to the case said that the perpetrators, a man and a woman, fled on board a Kia vehicle towards an unknown direction.
Zeta Tijuana Alerta Código Rojo