Tulum's Top Cop Gunned Down in Brazen Attack
Tulum's security chief assassinated in cartel-linked attack. Violence escalates in Mexican tourist hotspot. Days prior, prosecutor's office also targeted.
Paradise has become a warzone. Jose Roberto Rodriguez Bautista, the Secretary of Citizen Security for Tulum, was brutally murdered in a hail of gunfire in the La Veleta neighborhood, leaving the Mexican resort town reeling.
Rodriguez Bautista, along with his security detail, was patrolling between Avenue 5 Sur and Calle 11 on Friday night when tragedy struck. He sustained three gunshot wounds, one to the chest, and was rushed to CostaMed Hospital before being transferred to a Playa del Carmen hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
