California couple shot dead in Mexico while on vacation for the holidays
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The couple were gunned down in the western state of Michoacan just before midnight on Wednesday.
A California couple has been shot and killed while on vacation in Mexico, authorities have confirmed.
The couple, identified by the Michoacan State Attorney General’s Office only as Gloria A., 50, and Rafael C., 53, were gunned down in the western state of Michoacan just before midnight Wednesday night.
The married pair had been travelling in a pickup truck in the municipality of Angamacutiro when they were shot. The woman died at the scene, reports Reuters, while the man died in hospital a short time later.
It was not immediately clear why or if the couple was specifically targeted.
State prosecutors told Reuters that the woman, who had obtained U.S. citizenship, and the man, who was born in the U.S. to Mexican parents, had family and a home in Angamacutiro.
Magdalena Guzmán, a press officer at the Michoacán prosecutor’s office, told the New York Times the couple arrived in Mexico late last month to spend the holidays with family.
According to the outlet, authorities learned of the attack after security officers found their vehicle ridden with bullets on an Angamacutiro street.
The prosecutor’s office said that the couple’s licence plate had been registered without a number in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighbourhood. Investigators were collecting ballistic evidence from the scene for analysis.
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