Fishing businessman Emilio Sánchez Marrufo, better known as “Mulato,” was murdered in cold blood on Friday night inside his home in this town.
Everything seems to indicate that three men whose identity is unknown entered Mulato’s home and hit him several times until they killed him with machetes.
Relatives were alerted and immediately helped him by loading him into a black van to be rushed to a clinic in Tizimín. However, he did not resist and died on the Tizimín-Río Lagartos highway.
While in the town people mobilized and a group of inhabitants managed to catch up with one of the alleged murderers, a man of approximately 20 years old who was tied up, beaten up, and even dragged with a horse.
The people’s helplessness against the accused was so great that they wanted to lynch him; large numbers of residents had already gathered in the Municipal Palace where the police had the subject inside one of the units.
While waiting for the arrival of agents from the Ministry of Public Security, the angry inhabitants tried to overturn the police vehicle, while others tried to set it on fire.
The neighbors wanted to prevent him from being taken away because they claimed that he would be released after murdering the businessman.
This began to mobilize dozens of SSP and anti-riot units. Soon around 40 official state police patrol cars, firefighters, as well as an ambulance, and more than 100 officers arrived.
The town’s inhabitants blocked the exit of the municipal palace with beams, blocks, stones, and everything within their reach, while the state police guarded the municipal unit with the detainee on board.
After a long wait, there was a dialogue with the people and they allowed the patrol to be released, but as they left the people shouted “murderer, murderer.”
There was a moment when they threw stones at the police vehicle because not everyone agreed that the suspect should be taken prisoner.
There are two versions of the crime: the first, that they tried to assault the businessman and he resisted; Second: neighbors reported that his death arose after a crime of passion because he was dating the wife of a person who lives in a ranch near the San Francisco police station.
Until last night the operation continued to find the other two involved, they asked the police to reinforce security in the port. It was ruled out that the homicide was due to the conflict between poachers and fishermen.
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