Mexican Military Personnel Acquitted Of Killing 15 Gang Suspects
A Mexican judge has acquitted three military personnel of the extrajudicial killing of 15 suspected gang members during a confrontation in June 2014, the attorney general’s office said late Friday.
The clash took place in Tlatlaya on the southern fringes of the state of Mexico, which borders the violence-plagued states of Guerrero and Michoacan.
Authorities said at the time the dead were suspected drug gang members, and the military had acted in self-defense. Twenty-two people died in the incident.