In the early hours of April 7, an armed commando stormed the Shaddai rehabilitation center in the Colinas de San Miguel neighborhood, in Culiacán, Sinaloa.
The toll was nine people executed and five more seriously injured.
According to Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch, the attack was part of an offensive against "Los Mayos," a rival faction led by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
The rehabilitation center had been identified as a refuge for members or collaborators of that cell. The strikers entered violently, subdued the inmates, and opened fire indiscriminately.
Narco crimes in rehabilitation centers
The President of the Union of Rehabilitation Center Networks, Guillermo Rodríguez Gaxiola, was kidnapped and hours later found dead south of Culiacán.
His body was abandoned in a bag with signs of torture. The crime occurred in broad daylight. This attack adds to a chain of assaults on rehabilitation centers since September 2024.
In the context of the war between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, more than 800 people have died in the conflict, without a single high-profile arrest.
