A 12-year-old boy was killed in a shooting incident on a beach in Cancun, Mexico on July 29, 2024.
Mexican authorities are investigating the incident. The Attorney General's office is leading the investigation.
The shooting was the result of territorial disputes between drug dealers.
A tragic incident occurred on a beach in Cancun, Mexico on July 29, 2024, when gunmen on jet skis opened fire towards rival drug dealers. Unfortunately, a 12-year-old boy was killed as he was lying on a lounge chair with his family. The boy was not the intended target of the shooters.
This incident is just one in a series of violent events that have taken place in Mexican resorts along the Caribbean coast in recent years, resulting from territorial disputes between drug dealers. In 2021 and 2022, several tourists were killed due to such incidents.
Mexican authorities are currently investigating the shooting incident. The Attorney General's office is leading the investigation in the municipality of Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo.
The boy's tragic death comes as Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, issued an appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other following the detention of top Mexican drug lord Ismael
Gunmen opened fire towards a beach in Cancun, Mexico on Sunday.
A 12-year-old boy was killed by stray bullets during the shooting incident.
The boy was not the intended target of the gunmen.
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The article contains some inflammatory rhetoric and an appeal to authority, but no formal or blatant logical fallacies were found. The author uses the phrase 'presumably aiming at rival drug dealers' when describing the gunmen on jet skis, which could be considered inflammatory as it implies a certain level of guilt without concrete evidence. Additionally, the author quotes Mexican prosecutors and a spokesperson for a hotel as sources of information, which is an appeal to authority. However, these fallacies do not significantly impact the overall content or accuracy of the article.
gunmen on jet skis unleashed a barrage of bullets apparently aimed at rival drug dealers
Mexican prosecutors said in a statement late on Sunday
A spokesperson for the Riu Cancun hotel near where the shooting reportedly occurred told El Universal
Gunmen opened fire at a beach in Cancun on July 29, 2024.
A 12-year-old boy was killed after being hit by stray bullets while lying on a lounge chair with his family.
Territorial disputes between drug dealers have resulted in several incidents of violence and deaths in Mexican resorts along the Caribbean coast in recent years.
A 12-year-old boy was killed by stray bullet fired from gunmen on jet skis in Cancun, Mexico.
The intended targets were rival drug dealers engaged in a dispute over drug sales on a beach.
This incident comes amidst Mexico’s ongoing drug wars and as the country’s president issued an appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other following the detention of top Mexican drug lord Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez.
In recent years, territorial disputes between drug dealers have led to several tourist fatalities in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resorts.
