State legislator and mayoral hopeful murdered in Guanajuato Juan Antonio Acosta was hoping to run for mayor of Juventino Rosas
Published on Wednesday, January 13, 2021
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A Guanajuato state legislator who was hoping to run for mayor of Juventino Rosas was shot in the back and killed Tuesday morning.
Authorities said Juan Antonio Acosta Cano’s killers shot him seven times from behind, then left him for dead in his exercise clothes on a downtown street in the city of Juventino Rosas.
Acosta, 55, had registered as a National Action Party candidate for mayor of the municipality, where he had served two previous terms from 2006–2009 and 2012–2015.