An activist who searched for her disappeared brother killed in Mexican border city
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A gunman has killed an activist who led a group of volunteers searching for some of Mexico's more than 100,000 missing people
MEXICO CITY -- A gunman has killed an activist who led a group of volunteers searching for some of Mexico’s over 100,000 missing people, prosecutors said.
The killer burst into a beauty salon Thursday in the northern border city of Mexicali and shot to death Ángela León, who apparently ran the shop.
León was at least the seventh volunteer searcher killed since 2021. An eighth activist was abducted in January and has not been heard from since.
Prosecutors in the northern border state of Baja California pledged Friday to investigate the crime, which is all the more shocking because most searchers say they are not trying to put anyone in jail.
León was the head of the search group “Union and Strength for Our Disappeared,” and had been searching since 2018 for her brother, José Juan Vázquez, who disappeared in Tecate that year.
