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The prosecutors’ office in the southern state of Guerrero said
they were reviewing security camera footage to try to identify
the killers.
The attack killed Edmundo Román Pinzón, who served as a criminal
court judge and also sat on a state appeals court. Acapulco has
seen almost two decades of unrelenting violence, the result of
turf battles between a number of warring drug gangs.
Killings of members of the judiciary branch in Mexico are
relatively rare, but have happened in the past. Some judges are
believed to be pressured by organized crime, and lawyers
involved in drug cases have also been killed in the past.
In 2020, a federal judge and his wife were killed in the western
Mexico state of Colima, and in 2006, a federal judge was shot to
death while traveling in his car near a maximum-security prison
outside Mexico City that holds some of Mexico’s top drug
suspects.
Wednesday's killing comes just two days after assailants in the
Gulf coast state of Veracruz shot to death a federal
congressman. Rep. Benito Aguas Atlahua was a member of the Green
Party, an ally of the ruling Morena party. Investigators have
yet to publicly identify any possible motive in Monday's
slaying.
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