News Abel Murrieta Gutiérrez, a candidate for mayor in the municipality of Cajeme, Sonora, was killed in an attack on Thursday.
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Published on Friday, May 14, 2021
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A candidate for mayor in Cajeme, Sonora, was murdered on Thursday in yet another incident of violence during what is already the second most violent electoral season in Mexico in this century.
Abel Murrieta Gutiérrez, a former Sonora attorney general and mayoral candidate for the Citizens Movement (MC) party, was shot multiple times at approximately 5:00 p.m. while campaigning on the streets of Ciudad Obregón, the Cajeme municipal seat.