Authorities in Mexico are investigating the daylight shooting of a man outside a luxury beach resort in Cancun in what prosecutors are calling a “targeted attack.” The man, a Mexican national, was killed after two people approached him in Cancun’s Hotel Zone and shot him to death, the attorney general’s office for the state of Quintana Roo wrote in a press release . A blurred photo of the crime scene published by Riviera Maya News shows the man’s body lying in the sand.
Witnesses told police that the two suspects walked up to the man on the beach, shot him several times, then boarded jet skis and fled. The identity of the deceased man has not been released by authorities. A spokesperson for RIU Hotels & Resorts told Global News that the incident occurred in front of the Riu Palace Las Americas hotel.
The man who was killed was not a guest or employee, the hotel chain said, and no guests or staff members were harmed in the shooting. Prosecutors later revealed that the man who was killed may have been involved in an earlier shooting in Cancun’s Hotel Zone and that the crimes could be tied to the drug trade. On July 28, a minor was shot and killed in the same area.
Authorities believe the man gunned down Wednesday was one of two suspects who arrived at the beach on a jet ski, shot the child, then fled the scene. “The now deceased was allegedly driving the jet ski,” that day, prosecutors wrote. The Associated Press reported at the time that a 12-year-old boy was k.
