The incident occurred at the Vicente Guerrero Avenue branch; it is believed the victim was the victim of an attempted carjacking.
On Tuesday, November 25, a man was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Home Depot store on Vicente Guerrero Avenue in Cuernavaca. Authorities are investigating the possibility that the attack was motivated by an attempted carjacking.
According to police reports, at 2:04 p.m., emergency services received a report of gunfire at the store, located in the Lomas de Cortés neighborhood.
The victim’s wife told authorities that a man on a motorcycle shot her husband.
Paramedics from the Medical Emergency Regulation Center (CRUM) arrived at the scene to assist the man, but he was already deceased.
Initial reports suggest it was a suspected robbery. However, the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) will determine the motive for the incident, which occurred in broad daylight inside the parking lot of the store in a busy area.
Officers from the Cuernavaca Municipal Police, assigned to the Secretariat of Citizen Protection and Assistance (Seprac), cordoned off the area for forensic and expert analysis by the Attorney General’s Office. Mexican Army personnel were also deployed to the scene.
So far, no arrests have been made in connection with this incident.
This case follows a similar one that occurred last Friday, November 14, during the “Buen Fin” (Black Friday-like sales event), when a family was robbed in the parking lot of a Sam’s Club store, also located on Vicente Guerrero Avenue. In that case, according to security camera footage, the perpetrators were armed individuals who fled on a motorcycle.\
Source: OEM
