Singer gunned down in Mexico
November 15th, 2011 - 11:10 am ICT by IANSCuliacan (Mexico), Nov 15 (IANS/EFE) A singer-songwriter who performed “narcocorridos”, ballads that recount the exploits and travails of drug kingpins, was gunned down over the weekend in Culiacan, the capital of the Mexican state of Sinaloa, officials said.
Diego Rivas was killed Sunday by gunmen who opened fire at close range in Culiacan’s Lazaro Cardenas neighbourhood, the Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office said.
Rivas, known for the hits “El amor no se vende”, “Los ojitos de mi Elena” and “Soy yo”, was drinking in the street with several other people when the gunmen opened fire.
Alfredo Herrera Gomez, 24, was also killed.
Another man, identified as 22-year-old Jeffry Olguin Garcia, died while being treated at a hospital.
Investigators found bullet casings from AK-47 assault rifles and other weapons, as well as two vehicles, at the crime scene, the AG’s office said.
Rivas is the latest narcocorrido performer to be murdered in northern Mexico in recent years.
Singer Sergio Vega, known as “El Shaka”, was shot dead while driving on a highway in Sinaloa June 26, 2010.
Vega was driving to Alhuey, where he planned to perform with several other artists, when gunmen who had apparently been following him opened fire on the vehicle.
–IANS/EFE
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