The lifeless bodies of four people, including a municipal police officer, were found Thursday morning on the federal highway connecting Cancún to the Riviera Maya, Mexican Caribbean, very close to the international airport, a new shopping center, and a hotel.
Shortly after 8:00 a.m., the 911 operations center received several calls from drivers alerting about a body lying on the side of the federal highway, right where a dirt road parallel to the main access to the Moon Palace hotel begins.
Upon arrival, emergency services confirmed that the man’s body had a gunshot wound to the head and showed no vital signs.
Agents from the Homicide Investigation Unit and Forensic Services of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) of Quintana Roo, who were inspecting the area for clues or belongings of the victim, found three more bodies in an abandoned warehouse located at the end of the dirt road where the first body was found.
Hours later, the FGE confirmed that one of the bodies belonged to a municipal police officer who was off duty due to illness, while the other three people have not yet been identified.
The initial lines of investigation point to recent operations related to human trafficking and score-settling among criminal groups in the region.
National Guard agents were sent to points near the location where the four bodies were left.
The agents were stationed under a bridge connecting the Moon Palace hotel and a new shopping center with the Cancún-Puerto Morelos-Playa del Carmen highway, where corporation vehicles were also installed.
Just this past weekend, an armed attack occurred in the hotel zone of Cancún, where three armed men on jet skis fired at a lodging center and injured a 12-year-old boy who was with his family at Playa Caracol, a public beach located among hotels, restaurants, and shops.
Although he was rushed to a hospital in the city center, authorities confirmed his death due to a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Source: Latinus
