Boy, 12, killed on Cancún beach after gunmen on jet skis opened fire on rival drug dealers

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By Adry Torres For Dailymail.com

Published: 14:52 EDT, 30 July 2024 | Updated: 15:01 EDT, 30 July 2024

A 12-year-old boy was changeable and killed aft gunmen riding pitchy skis opened occurrence connected a rival supplier dealers connected a formation successful Cancún, Mexico.

The child, who was identified arsenic Santiago, was pinch his family sitting connected a chair astatine Caracol Beach adjacent to nan Riu Cancún erstwhile he was struck by aggregate stray bullets connected Sunday.

Santiago was treated connected nan segment by paramedics and rushed to an area hospital, wherever he later died.

The Quintana Roo State Attorney General's Office said nan assailants were targeting rival complete a conflict of supplier sales.

Paramedics supply assistance to a 12-year-old boy who was changeable multiples astatine a formation successful Cancún and later died astatine a infirmary connected Sunday afternoon. The kid was sitting connected a chair erstwhile gunmen riding pitchy skis began firing astatine rival supplier dealers

Authorities are searching for nan suspects linked to a shooting a Caracol Beach adjacent nan Riu Cancún edifice successful Cancún connected Sunday. The assailants approached nan formation connected pitchy skis and began firing connected rival supplier dealers. A 12-year-old boy who was astatine nan formation pinch his family was changeable and killed

'We will not remainder until we explain this tragic incident and guarantee that those responsible salary for their actions,' nan Quintana Roo Department of Public Security said.

Local outlets reported that nan boy and his family were primitively from Mexico City and resided successful nan municipality of Benito Juárez.

'They went to walk a Sunday astatine nan beach, because that kid loved nan beach. It is sad that these things happen,' a friend of nan family told El Universal newspaper.

Territorial disputes betwixt supplier dealers person costs nan lives of respective tourists in nan resorts on Mexico's Caribbean seashore successful caller years.

Cops defender a perimeter adjacent to nan Riu Cancún hotel, adjacent nan spot connected nan formation wherever a 12-year-old was changeable and killed successful a conflict betwixt rival supplier dealers

In 2022, 2 Canadians were killed successful Playa del Carmen, southbound of Cancún, apparently because of debts betwixt world supplier and weapons trafficking gangs.

In November 2021, respective assassins marched crossed nan Hyatt Ziva Riviera successful Puerto Morelos, southbound of Cancún, and executed 2 supplier dealers earlier they fled successful speedboats. 

An October 2021 shooting claimed nan lives of 25-year-old Anjali Ryot, a resident of San Jose, California, and 35-year-old Jennifer Henzold, of Germany, aft gunmen opened fired arsenic they chased a rival supplier trader adjacent a Tulum bar.

In June 2021, a 30-year-old Kentucky residents was changeable and wounded and 2 workers were changeable dormant astatine a Cancún formation gift shop. Two suspects fled successful 2 pitchy skis.

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