El Chapo’s nephew, 45, is shot and killed in his car in Sinaloa: Cartel members hunt gunmen after his body was found in a vehicle riddled with bullets
- Enrique Guzmán was found dead inside a car in Sinaloa, Mexico, on Wednesday
- Cops received a phone call alerting them 45-year-old was shot several times
- Romero, who was the nephew of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, survived an assassination attempt in July 2019
- El Chapo reportedly ordered the murder of his brother, Juan ‘Juancho’ Guzmán, in 2011, according to testimony offered by his mistress during his 2019 trial
Joaquín ‘El Chapo‘ Guzmán’s nephew has been shot and killed inside a car in a brazen attack that has sparked fears of an escalation in cartel wars.
Authorities in the Culiacán, Mexico, neighborhood of El Ranchero found Enrique Guzmán executed in the driver’s seat of a red Toyota Corolla which was riddled with bullets.
Investigators said the 45-year-old had several gun shot wounds to the body.
Members of his family identified his body before it was sent to forensic experts.
Investigators search the site where Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s nephew, Enrique Guzmán, was found executed in the driver’s seat of a car (pictured) which was riddled with bullets. The discovery was made Wednesday morning after police in Culiacán, Mexico, were alerted
Alleged masked members of the Sinaloa Cartel search a vehicle in Culiacán hours after the body of El Chapo’s nephew was found dead inside a car in the El Ranchito neighborhood
Sinaloa authorities have not made arrests nor offered a motive for Guzmán’s killing, which comes on the heels of a late June attack launched in Sonora by a gang linked to El Chapo’ sons which killed at least 10 individuals tied to a group working for Rafael Caro Quintero, the notorious drug lord who is featured in Netflix’s hit series, Narcos: Mexico.
A video uploaded to social media by a motorist showed a group of masked individuals, whom appeared to be members of the Sinaloa Cartel, setting up checkpoints and questioning drivers and pedestrians in Culiacán following Guzmán’s death.
Guzmán survived an assassination attempt on on July 3, 2019 when several armed men chased his vehicle in the Culiacán town of Pemex, according to Mexican newspaper El Universal.
Police have not made any arrests and are unaware of the motive behind the death of Enrique Guzmán, the nephew of El Chapo, who was shot dead in a car (pictured)
El Chapo (pictured) allegedly order the murder of his nephew Juan ‘El Juanón’ Guzmán in December 2011, according to testimony given by a former lover during his trial in New York. Guzmán’s brother, Enrique, was found dead Wednesday in Sinaloa, Mexico
He suffered a gun shot wound but his girlfriend, who was identified as Karen, died in the attack. He was able to flee from his attackers by driving into a state-owned oil company parking lot.
Guzmán’s brother, Juan ‘El Juanón’ Guzmán, was murdered along with another man in December 2011 when he was kidnapped by armed men.
Investigators in Mexico have not revealed a motive for the murder of El Chapo’s nephew, Enrique Guzmán
The hit was allegedly ordered by their cousin, El Chapo, according to explosive testimony offered by his mistress Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez during the jailed drug lord’s trial in New York in January 2019
El Chapo’s former lover told the court that he ‘did not react’ when his nephew and bodyguard came running to him with the news.
‘He looked at me seriously and then he said some words I did not like,’ Sánchez recalled. ‘What he said was that from that point on, whoever betrayed him was going to die, whether they were family or women.’