Vallarta Blog

Puerto Vallarta, December 7 .- Two subjects armed with assault rifles AK-47, shot over 40 bullets at a business called Eclipzus, situated at the luxury division called Fluvial Vallarta, leaving three people injured.

One of the injured was an employee of the brewery Modelo identified as Samuel Castro Rojas of 35 years of age, who presented bullet wounds in the left leg and one on the other side.

The other injured persons were Victor Jerome Amado Cardenas and Jessica Sataray González, who were taken to different hospitals, which are heavily guarded on the in- and outside by police officers in order to secure the lives of every one of them, since it’s feared to happen again.

Expertise in the Office of Justice of this area collected about 40 bullet shells of different calibers at the scene, including 9 mm and AK –47 weapons, which were scattered over the interior and exterior of the shop selling curtains.

According to police reports, the shooting started around 1:45pm, when the assailants arrived on board a gray Jetta with tinted windows at the store with number 195, on avenue Río Amazonas in Fluvial Vallarta, two armed subjects stepped out of the vehicle and began firing against the woman and another subject that was having a conversation with the employee of the brewery.

Witnesses said that “it is rare that a business selling curtains, where normally only women go shopping and sometimes they might be accompanied by a man, but in this business there are almost only men going in and out, which is “very weird”. They also commented that the owners do own luxury vehicles such as Mercedes Benz and porting Corvette.

Since Jessica Sataray González is related to Fernando González Corona and the senator, Eva Contreras Sandoval, authorities do not dismiss any personal vengeance or drug trafficking relations.

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