Overview
- In Oaxaca, state prosecutors opened a homicide case after a 10-year-old was shot on January 18 in San Miguel Panixtlahuaca, with the body found January 19 by the river in Colonia Cristo Rey.
- Seven active municipal officers were detained based on early investigative results, and ministerial plus forensic work continues to establish each officer’s degree of responsibility.
- Witness accounts describe municipal police arriving at the Barrio de Guadalupe field, the child and companions running, a pursuit, and gunfire minutes later.
- In the State of Mexico, prosecutors initiated an investigation oficio and removed 10 Policía de Investigación personnel from Tecámac — a regional coordinator, three group chiefs, and six agents — concentrating them at central offices.
- Videos and citizen complaints show suspected ministerial agents stopping motorists in unmarked vehicles on the Mexico–Pachuca corridor and nearby municipalities, intimidating drivers, demanding payments, and at times trying to seize phones, with authorities urging victims to report and a local lawmaker citing reports of demands up to 100,000 pesos.