Overview
- Torres Félix left a private hospital after roughly four weeks of treatment and will continue rehabilitation at home, health officials confirmed.
- He underwent two surgeries, including reconstructive work on a hand, according to local reporting by El Informador.
- Elizabeth Montoya, the other deputy wounded in the attack who lost an eye, has also been discharged and is expected to resume legislative duties soon, El Informador reported.
- Federal security chief Omar García Harfuch previously attributed the assault to a faction of Los Chapitos and announced a detention, which the state prosecutor’s office said lacked an arrest warrant.
- The January 28 attack followed a state congress session on Malecón Viejo in Culiacán and unfolded during a fraught municipal workers’ union leadership contest that saw threats reported and the elected leader’s home sprayed with gunfire.