Sunny Acapulco became bloody Acapulco on Wednesday when a shootout on a hotel-lined boulevard ended with as many as six people dead, the Los Angeles Times reported.
What unfolded at the famous Mexican beach resort must have been chaotic and unsettling to tourists who had been hoping the resort would not become entangled in the country's escalating drug war. It's not the first time that the violence reached Acapulco's streets. Gunfire there in June took 18 lives.
The newspaper reported that federal officers on patrol Wednesday came under fire after hearing gunfire and observing gunmen shooting at two men in a car. The attackers also fired at other vehicles while fleeing, hitting dozens of them, the newspaper reported.
Included among the shooting victims were a woman and her 8-year-old daughter, but no tourists appeared to be among those shot, the Times reported.
-- Lance Murray
What unfolded at the famous Mexican beach resort must have been chaotic and unsettling to tourists who had been hoping the resort would not become entangled in the country's escalating drug war. It's not the first time that the violence reached Acapulco's streets. Gunfire there in June took 18 lives.
The newspaper reported that federal officers on patrol Wednesday came under fire after hearing gunfire and observing gunmen shooting at two men in a car. The attackers also fired at other vehicles while fleeing, hitting dozens of them, the newspaper reported.
Included among the shooting victims were a woman and her 8-year-old daughter, but no tourists appeared to be among those shot, the Times reported.
-- Lance Murray
Don't tell Bud Kennedy--he won't believe it, anyway.
Posted by: techietexan | April 15, 2010 at 09:24 PM
LOL ...... just quit going to this shiithole country.
There are no laws and no authority that isn't corrupt.
If you insist on going then you deserve to be executed if you're caught in one of these shoot outs.
The Drug gangs could care less about human life and neither does their corrupt government.
Posted by: RevJL | April 16, 2010 at 07:21 AM
All the criminals are coming to the U.S. from Mexico.. This has to stop.
Posted by: shinez53 | April 18, 2010 at 03:34 PM