Blundering cartel gunmen kill their own boss after mistaking him for rival in wild hospital shootoutBy Snejana Farberov
Published Oct. 4, 2023
A Mexican cartel boss reportedly was killed by his own men after they mistook him for a rival gang member during a wild shootout at a hospital — and one of the blundering hitmen then turned the gun on himself after realizing his error.
The gun battle broke out at a private hospital in Culiacán, Mexico, on September 28 and left four people dead — among them a secretive Sinaloa Cartel chief known as El 22.
El 22 was said to have been in charge of the criminal organization’s illicit operations in Guamúchil, Sinaloa, on behalf of jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s sons, known collectively as “El Chapitos.”
The cartel honcho arrived at the Culiacán Hospital Clinic last Thursday night to pay for the surgery of a fellow Sinaloa Cartel member, Omar Silvano, who had been wounded in a shooting in the town of Badiraguato three days earlier, according to the Spanish-language El Blog del Narco.
But cartel foot soldiers who were guarding Silvano at the hospital reportedly mistook El 22 for an assassin coming to execute their injured comrade — and opened fire on him, according to the Daily Star.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/cartel-gunmen-kill-own-boss-after-mistaking-him-for-rival/
