Overview
- A senior commander at the Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana (SSPC) was found dead inside SSPC facilities on Saturday, with initial versions saying he apparently shot himself and state forensic teams have begun diligencias.
- Reporting identified the deceased as Eduardo de la Cruz Ovilla, the director of the Fuerzas Estatales de Apoyo and a member of the Grupo Élite Tiburón assigned to the SSPC.
- The commander was under investigation by the Fiscalía General del Estado over the November 14, 2025 death of 20-year-old UJAT student Rodrigo Isidro, a case that led to arrest orders for four state officers in November and reportedly expanded toward their superiors.
- The SSPC said it notified the Fiscalía immediately, will cooperate with investigators, and is withholding further comment while the prosecutor’s office and the Servicio Médico Forense conduct their work.
- The death intensifies public and legal scrutiny of command accountability in Tabasco and makes the Fiscalía’s forensic findings and any subsequent judicial steps central to determining both the cause of the commander’s death and responsibility in the student’s killing.