Sicarios Use a Jet Ski for Another Beach Front Targeted Killing in Acapulco Alasdair Baverstock - Daily Mail
go to original March 10, 2016

The gunman swam to the shore on Acapulco Beach from point one and blasted his victim three times in the chest before fleeing with an accomplice on a waiting jet ski where the trail for them goes cold. (Daily Mail)

As holidaymakers sunned themselves on the golden sand of Acapulco beach, a man carrying a 9mm pistol swam up to the shore, shot a beachwear seller three times in the chest, and calmly made his way back to the jet ski where his accomplice was waiting and disappeared around the rocky headland to the west.

The new, 'James Bond-style' assassination is the new face of crime on Mexico's Pacific Coast, where cartel killers are murdering gang rivals in tourist areas - and escape from the beach on high powered jet skis to get away from police.

The latest such execution in broad daylight is the fourth to hit Acapulco this year - a beach resort popular as an affordable getaway with American and European tourists.

But Acapulco is in the midst of its worst crime wave for a decade where there were 1,600 murders last year and already 684 in 2016 - or 12 a day.

The jet-ski murder, which occurred on January 29 in early afternoon, is the fourth of its kind to see killers escape from Acapulco Bay to another part of Guerrero state's jagged Pacific coastline.

The killers who left the salesman dead on the beach in front of hundreds of onlookers have still not been caught, the case buried under the unceasing daily onslaught of crime.

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