MEXICO CITY — A Mexican vacationer has been shot to demise within the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum in a dramatic theft at a U.S. chain espresso store, prosecutors and police stated Tuesday.
The vacationer apparently refused handy over an costly watch he was sporting, and was shot by the robbers.
Video of the killing posted on social media Tuesday confirmed males with motorbike helmets burst into the espresso store at gunpoint Monday.
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One other man within the video, reportedly the sufferer’s bodyguard, then took out a pistol and opened fireplace on the robber, who fled.
The bodyguard chased the robber towards the road and saved firing at him via the shop’s door.
Police within the coastal state of Quintana Roo stated one of many thieves fled was wounded and later arrested at a neighborhood hospital.
State Prosecutor Oscar Montes de Oca stated the bodyguard had been launched as a result of he had a weapons allow, and should have been appearing in self protection.
It was the most recent chapter of continuous violence on Mexico’s resort-studded Caribbean coast, the crown jewel of the nation’s tourism business.
Final week, 4 males in Cancun, north of Tulum , had been killed in a dispute associated to drug gang rivalries.
Drug gang chief Hector Flores Aceves, recognized by his nickname “Pantera,” or the Panther, was being sought in reference to the killings.
The useless males had been discovered within the metropolis’s resort zone close to the seashore. The killings got here as Cancun kicked off the Easter Week holidays, one in all its busiest occasions of the yr.
A U.S. vacationer was shot within the leg within the close by city of Puerto Morelos in March. The motive in that continues to be beneath investigation.
The U.S. State Division issued a journey alert final month warning vacationers to “train elevated warning,” particularly after darkish, at Mexico’s Caribbean seashore resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum, which have been tormented by drug gang violence previously.
In 2022, two Canadians had been killed in Playa del Carmen, apparently due to money owed between worldwide drug and weapons trafficking gangs.
In 2021, in Tulum, two vacationers — one a Bay Space journey blogger born in India and the opposite German — had been killed once they apparently had been caught within the crossfire of a gunfight between rival drug sellers.