Has anyone heard anymore regarding tonights shooting outside Notaria #6? So far 2 injured after the drive-by.
Here's the full report, Estan graves los lesionados que dejo la balacera en la Nader - Grupo SIPSE, sipse.com At about 7 PM, yesterday, fifteen rounds were fired from an AK47, two persons were hit near their cars, apparently, which were also hit: a few rounds struck the building behind, offices of Notario No 6. According to witnesses the assailants arrived in three vehicles. Two injured, no one dead, yet. Too loosely executed to have been planned as a hit, this was probably a "message" shooting. In that it occurred on the territory of a Notario's office, I suspect a business related dispute. I went by today to inspect the damage: judging from the impact craters on the walls, the passing vehicles were in the lane opposite the building, so they were shooting from a distance, and moving at the same time. Unlike most of the unfortunate mass shootings that have occurred in recent months in the U.S., this one probably had a target, other than "anyone in the theater", etc. ________________________
sciak: One street behind Avenida Tulum. Not much to see nor do there for tourists, so no worries. V: Thanks for the link and info.
Very close to where I work. I was in the area 30 minutes before it happened. Pretty scary stuff. It is one thing if they used a handgun but an AK47 is a whole other ball game. What a way to settle a "dispute." These things are really unsettling when it happens so close to a place that you work or live. Not to say that it can´t happen anywhere, but Nader is relatively a quiet street. The Notario office where it happened is not too far from the Immigration office where all of us expats need to visit every once in a while.
poco: Agreed. Prefer that they would settle their stuff, up close, handgun-style, rather that spray the surrounding area. Was thinking about the INM office as well. Maybe a bullet or two in their building would wake the staff up so they can find my damn file? :O Ps. From what I heard, a kid was in one of the cars hit - no harm though, physically that is.
I don't tend to get too impressed with incidents of this type. When I lived in downtown Dallas we would hear gunshots at night, from time to time. When I lived in Kazahkstan, eight terrorists were holed up in an apt four blocks from where I lived and, after a five hour battle through the night with automatic weapons, it took a tank to finally put an end to it. A close friend lived next door to the whole thing, and even they weren't that rattled. I was a university student when 21 people were systematically gunned down by a sniper in the university's clock tower, and scores of others wounded. Even that didn't make me do anything more than just look up to see what was happening. (First shot sounded like a piece of lumber hitting flat on the pavement: when I took a closer look, I saw a number of bodies on the ground in front of the clock tower.) Somehow what doesn't hit you, misses you, and that's the end of the story for me, perhaps because I grew up in the U.S. Cancun is absolutely no more dangerous than any big city in the U.S. in any way that I can see, and I do watch the news and read the local papers.
I guess you are right V, maybe for us from non-gun-toting countries it is a little more alarming. I personally find it sickening and disgraceful, not to mention extremely cowardly. Guns for me are the epitome of cowardice for resolving issues. From what you just said I guess, for you guys, it's more normal to snuff out life at the pull of a trigger. In fact the guns used were more than likely bought in the US.
Never toted myself, Mat, and I would be happy to see effective gun control imposed everywhere. The rationales that are offered for practically unlimited private access to weapons of all kinds seem awfully weak to me. The fact that it is permitted under U.S. law just makes me think we need to change the law; but, I´m in a minority there.
Touching on what V was saying, I remember when I was in high school in Virginia there was a sniper going around the state and taking out innocent people in public places. I had to look around at rooftops every time I parked my car. Scary. Here in Cancun I don't really get that feeling, probably because the violence is more targeted and less random.
