Google TranslateThree separate shootings in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon have claimed the life of one police officer and left three others wounded, according to Mexican news reports.
The headquarters of Guadalupe municipal police was attacked by armed suspects riding aboard a vehicle at about 1830 hrs. Placido Baltazar Gerardo Cazares was on foot near the police building near the intersection of calles Loma Alta and San Miguel Torres and was hit by gunfire.
Gerardo Cazares died later at a local hospital.
A second attack took place a short time later on avenida Ruiz Cortines where traffic police José Alvarado Marroquin and Marco Antonio Perez Celeron were struck by gunfire, apparently by the same group that attacked and killed another officer.
Earlier in the evening at about 1815 hrs, a patrol vehicle of the San Nicholas de la Garza, also a suburb of Monterrey, was fired on in the Azteca colony, wounding one municipal police officer.
The patrol was stopped at a convenience store near the intersection of avenidas Lopez Mateos and Xictoencatl when they were fired on by four armed suspects aboard a Chevrolet Malibu. Reports say the firing lasted for several minutes.
The officer wounded, identified as Eduardo Rodriguez Torres, 27, was listed in critical condition having been struck three times.