Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a FM105 article
Subject Matter: El Chapo Trini, Trinidad Olivas Valenzuela
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Otis: Currently none of the big 5 news networks in Mexico are carrying this story, but lots of comments have been received regarding this incident so I have decided to post it. Most of the current information is on lesser known news outlets and social media.
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It was close to 23:45 on Wednesday, in the Nuevo Mexico Colonia of Zapopan, Jalisco, at a food outlet called "Tacos y Hot Dog estilo Sonora, where unknown armed subject arrived and attacked with gunfire a family that were eating at the aforementioned place.
A man aged 42 years, a woman aged 48 and young girl aged 7 were the targets.
Witnesses related that in the moment that they arrived, two subjects fired at the man, also hit the woman and the child wounding them. After shooting, they aggressors fled aboard a BMW X6 and a Mercedes Benz.
The man was taken in a vehicle to the Angel Leano Hospital, however medics confirmed that when arriving at the Hospital the man was already dead.
A few minutes after, the woman and child arrive at the Puerto de Hierro Hospital in Andares. The woman had a bullet wound in the thigh and the child had a bullet wound in the abdomen. The medics there confirmed that the injuries sustained by the woman and child's injuries were not considered life threatening..
Identifying El Chapo Trini
Primary information indicates that he was originally from Sinaloa but his residence was known as being in Ciudad Obregon, and his name being Trinidad Olivas Valenzuela, who operated his narco trafficking network in Obregon Sonora.
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Original article in Spanish at FM105
Subject Matter: El Chapo Trini, Trinidad Olivas Valenzuela
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Otis: Currently none of the big 5 news networks in Mexico are carrying this story, but lots of comments have been received regarding this incident so I have decided to post it. Most of the current information is on lesser known news outlets and social media.
It was close to 23:45 on Wednesday, in the Nuevo Mexico Colonia of Zapopan, Jalisco, at a food outlet called "Tacos y Hot Dog estilo Sonora, where unknown armed subject arrived and attacked with gunfire a family that were eating at the aforementioned place.
A man aged 42 years, a woman aged 48 and young girl aged 7 were the targets.
Witnesses related that in the moment that they arrived, two subjects fired at the man, also hit the woman and the child wounding them. After shooting, they aggressors fled aboard a BMW X6 and a Mercedes Benz.
The man was taken in a vehicle to the Angel Leano Hospital, however medics confirmed that when arriving at the Hospital the man was already dead.
A few minutes after, the woman and child arrive at the Puerto de Hierro Hospital in Andares. The woman had a bullet wound in the thigh and the child had a bullet wound in the abdomen. The medics there confirmed that the injuries sustained by the woman and child's injuries were not considered life threatening..
Identifying El Chapo Trini
Primary information indicates that he was originally from Sinaloa but his residence was known as being in Ciudad Obregon, and his name being Trinidad Olivas Valenzuela, who operated his narco trafficking network in Obregon Sonora.
Original article in Spanish at FM105