Edmundo Román Pinzón, a criminal magistrate of the Guerrero Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) and former president of that body, was shot to death on the afternoon, December 11th, outside the Caleta courts in the port of Acapulco, reported the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE).
The crime was committed around 4 p.m. when the judge was leaving the court parking lot in his vehicle and was intercepted by armed men who shot him at least four times.
The FGE explained that agents of the Investigative Ministerial Police went to gather information from possible witnesses and locate video surveillance cameras.
Román Pinzón was a magistrate in the second criminal chamber of the Guerrero TSJ. He was president of that body from 2006 to 2011, during the government of the PRD member Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo (2005-2011), and at the same time of the Judicial Council.
The state Public Security Secretariat announced that the red code was activated, with which patrols, installation of review filters, and real-time monitoring were initiated to identify and detain the aggressors, in coordination with the Mexican Army, the National Guard, the Navy, and the FGE. Likewise, the collaboration of the citizens was requested to report any suspicious situation to the emergency number 911.
The governor of Guerrero, the Morena member Evelyn Salgado Pineda, condemned the murder, an event that “mourns Guerrero and demands immediate justice.”
On her social media accounts, she said that she requested the prosecutor’s office to carry out an exhaustive investigation so that those responsible face the full weight of the law. “We will not allow it to go unpunished,” she warned.
The crime was committed a day after Acapulco hosted the 50th ordinary session of the National Public Security Council, headed by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, with the participation of the majority of the country’s governors.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General’s Office said in a statement that the crime is already being investigated and that the Ministerial Investigative Police went to the port to contribute to the investigations.
The federal Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection also indicated that it maintains communication with local authorities to assist in clarifying what happened.
Source: La Jornada
