Mayor who took on job after officials fled Mexico ***** war is found stoned to death
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Gustavo Sanchez took on the job of mayor because no one else wanted it
The mayor of a small town in western Mexico has been stoned to death in the third ****** on a public official in the country in less than a week.
The bodies of 27-year-old Gustavo Sanchez, mayor of Tancitaro in Michoacan state, and an aide were found yesterday, local officials said. He had been missing since Saturday.
'It appears they were stoned to death,' a source from the local prosecutor's office said.
Local news reports claimed the bodies were found in the back of a flatbed truck.
Sanchez, 27, was a schoolteacher when he took charge of the municipal government in December after the town's mayor, city council and police department resigned en masse, saying they were being threatened by **** traffickers.
The former mayor's ****** had been ********* to pressure him to step down
"We've had executions of people, a town official, a councilman, but always shot to death … never anything like this," Michoacan state prosecutor Jesus Montejano said in a radio interview. "We are worried because this situation is very different from what organized crime usually does."
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Police examine the ****** scene where the bodies of Gustavo Sanchez and Rafael Equihua were discovered
There was no immediate indication whether the killings were related to **** ********, but more than 29,000 people have been ****** in clashes involving rival **** cartels and and security ****** since President Felipe Calderon launched his **** offensive in 2006.
On Friday, a mayor-elect in northern Chihuahua state was shot in the head and chest by suspected **** hitmen, leaving him in critical condition. A day earlier, armed men ****** the mayor of a town outside Mexico's northern business city of Monterrey.
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