Salamanca nightclub shooting

2019 mass shooting in Mexico

Salamanca nightclub shooting

Location| Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico
Coordinates| 20°34′40″N 101°12′44″W﻿ / ﻿20.5777°N 101.2123°W﻿ / 20.5777; -101.2123
Date| 9 March 2019

Attack type

| Mass shooting
Deaths| 15
Injured| 5–7
Perpetrators|  Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (suspected)[1]
Jalisco New Generation Cartel (suspected)[2]

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On 9 March 2019, a mass shooting occurred in La Playa Men's Club, a nightclub in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. Fifteen people were killed,[3][4][5][6] and five to seven people were injured.[3][7] Fourteen victims were later identified as Jalisco New Generation Cartel members.[8] Witnesses described the attackers as a group of armed men who arrived in three vans.[3][4]

The Mexican government later alleged that the attackers were part of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and announced that they had identified several individual attackers.[1] Five days before the shooting took place, an operation was launched by the Mexican government to crack down on this cartel.[9] Two days after the shooting took place, the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel posted on Twitter that an CJNG member known as Julio, aka "El Trompas," was the main perpetrator of the shootings.[10]

## Aftermath

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On 24 March 2019, local Santa Rosa de Lima cartel leader Agustin Medina Soto was arrested.[11] On 16 July 2019, it was revealed that all of the remaining resources of the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel, as well as the property of its leader José Antonio Yépez Ortiz (alias “El Marro”), were seized by Mexican authorities.[12] Blocked accounts held by Yépez and people linked to him contain a total of nearly 35.5 million pesos (US$1.85 million).[12]

## References

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1. ^ a b "FGE: Santa Rosa cartel behind nightclub shooting in Guanajuato". El Universal (in Spanish). 12 March 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
2. ^ "Ataque en bar de Guanajuato apunta al Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación". Mexico.com. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
3. ^ a b c "At least 15 killed in a nightclub shooting in violent Mexico state". Reuters. 10 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
4. ^ a b "15 killed in Mexico nightclub shooting". www.euronews.com. 10 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
5. ^ "Nightclub shooting 'leaves 14 dead' after gunmen open fire on dancefloor". The Independent. 9 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
6. ^ "Mexico night club shooting leaves 15 dead". TRT World. 10 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
7. ^ "Commando kills 15 in Salamanca, Guanajuato, bar attack". Mexico News Daily. 9 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
8. ^ "Governor rebukes federal government for freeing suspected gangsters". Mexico News Daily. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
9. ^ "More backlash against Guanajuato security operation to find oil thieves". 4 March 2019.
10. ^ "Cartel Santa Rosa de Lima sends message to CJNG after massacre in Salamanca".
11. ^ "Golpe al "Marro", capturan a "El Agus" operador del cártel de Santa Rosa de Lima | La Prensa". laprensafl.com. Archived from the original on 25 March 2019.
12. ^ a b "Gang leader still on the run but officials say he has no resources left". 16 July 2019.

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