Federal investigators said Thursday that two Mexico City police and 27 other people face homicide charges in the horrific vigilante killings of two federal agents this week. In a case of mistaken identity, the two agents were seized by an angry crowd, accused of kidnapping and then doused with paint thinner and set ablaze — deaths that were captured on tape and widely broadcast on television news. "There is enough proof to consider them probably responsible for the commission of homicide," said Deputy Federal Attorney General Gilberto Higuera. He said a court will determine if there enough evidence to try the 29 suspects. He didn't say when a hearing would be held. Most of the suspects were arrested during a massive sweep of San Juan Ixtayopan on Mexico City southern outskirts a day after the murders. The two victims and a third plainclothes federal agent went to San Juan Ixtayopan on Tuesday night. They were photographing an elementary school as part of an anti-drugs operation, but townspeople took them for kidnappers and attacked.
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