Hitman takes out another folk singer

From correspondents in Mexico City

January 16, 2008 10:59am

Article from: Reuters

A MEXICAN singer has been shot dead in the northern state of Sinaloa, the latest in what appears to be a growing list of folk musician slayings by organised crime gangs.

Sinaloa's justice department said Jorge Antonio Sepulveda, 20, was found dead early today on a road near the city of Guasave, 164km northwest of the state capital Culiacan.

Sepulveda, who was not well-known nationally, had been shot at least a dozen times with high-calibre guns.

A nearby car authorities believed belonged to him was burnt to a shell.

Authorities could not immediately comment on the motive for the killing, which bore the trademarks of the dozens of gangland-style murders that take place in Mexico each week.