This is the shocking moment Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s nephew and his cohorts opened fired several shots, wounding a customer inside a packed bar in the western Mexico city of Culiacán.
Never-before-seen footage captured by a bargoer shows Aureliano ‘El Guanito’ Guzmán shooting into the ceiling of the Casanova bar last Friday.
Guzmán let off at least eight shots and then aimed his gun at another individual in the area.
One member of the party was seen firing at least two additional shots, while another man pointed his gun toward the crowd. Customers scrambled to safety.
The injuries to a man’s leg and face are not known.
Aureliano ‘El Guanito’ Guzmán opens fire inside a Culiacán, Mexico, bar last Friday. A customer was left with injuries to his leg and face by the gunshots he and another member of his group fired. Sinaloa police arrested El Guanito along with two accomplices. They were allowed to flee the scene because they were outnumbered. They pursued El Guanito and his accomplices until backup arrived. However, they were unable to make any arrests.
Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán (pictured in January 2016) is serving a life sentence in the United States
Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s brother, Aureliano ‘El Guano’ Guzmán-Loera, is accused by the U.S. Department of State of ‘international’ drug trafficking. For information leading to Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s arrest and/or conviction, the agency has offered $5 million in reward
Further video footage captures three additional men being confronted outside the bar by police and given instructions by one to lower their guns and stand.
The cops obliged before Guzmán and the rest of the group sped off in five vehicles, Sinaloa state security chief Cristóbal Castañeda said.
Castañeda added that the police officers, who were patrolling the area aboard on four motorcycles, allowed Guzmán and the other gunmen to leave the scene because they were outnumbered.
A backup unit and the cops initiated a chase, but they were not able to arrest any of them.
El Chapo’s nephew, Aureliano ‘El Guanito’ Guzmán, aims his gun at an individual inside a bar in Culiacán, Mexico, last Friday
Still image of a video shows gunmen linked to El Chapo’s nephew, Aureliano ‘El Guanito’ Guzmán, in a stare down with Sinaloa state police officers, whom they told to lower their weapons before the escaped from a restaurant where they shot a customer in the leg and face last Friday in the western Mexico town of Culiacán
Guzmán is the youngest son of Aureliano ‘El Guano’ Guzmán-Loera, who has managed to keep a low profile within the cartel.
For information leading to El Guano’s capture and/or trial, the Department of State gave $5,000,000 in November.
An Arizona federal court accused him and three other high-ranking Sinaloa Cartel members with ‘the international distribution of controlled substances, including fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana.’
Mexican media reports that El Guano (and El Chapo)’s four children, also known as “Los Chapitos,” were involved in internal conflicts over the control and management of Sinaloa Cartel. The conflict began after El Guano was extradited from Mexico to serve a life sentence.
El Guano is wanted by Mexican authorities for reportedly orchestrating the September 29, 2016, ambush that left six soldiers dead and 10 people, including a paramedic, wounded after his henchmen freed Julio Óscar Ortiz Vega following his arrest in the Sinaloa municipality of Badiraguato.
El Guanito, his wife, Giselle Zepeda López, and five other people were taken into custody in October 2015 while the military was in pursuit of El Chapo in the Sinaloa municipality of Tierra Blanca.
However, they were all released from jail months later after authorities determine there wasn’t enough evidence to charge them with any crime.