An infamous cartel boss was killed by Mexican police just days after the organized gang shot dead several people in a cockfight.
José ‘El Chabelo’ Isabel was the head of the Sinaloa Cartel in the city of Manzanillo, which is also home to Mexico’s busiest port.
The New York Post reported that Isabel and an anonymous accomplice have been shot to death by Mexican police.
Isabel was already wanted by the authorities with a murder warrant before the fatal encounter.
This comes after the cartel carried out a mass shooting at a cockfight in the Las Parotas neighborhood of Manzanillo that left two people dead.
A shocking image of the incident shows several people huddled in fear on the ground after the deadly shooting.
Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Colima have not revealed details about the victims beyond identifying Isabel.
The state, which stretches along the Pacific coast, has reported 623 homicides between January and October of this year.
A shocking image of the cockfight shooting shows several people cowering on the ground after the deadly shooting.
The New York Post reported that Isabel and an unnamed accomplice were shot to death by Mexican police.
That gives Colima, which is smaller than Delaware and has a population of just 731,391, a harrowing homicide rate of 105 per 100,000 residents.
This is five times higher than the national average in Mexico.
The Sinaloa cartel grew from a small criminal syndicate in the 1980s to become one of the most powerful and violent drug gangs in the world.
It first focused on smuggling marijuana into the United States before, under the leadership of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, diversifying into harder drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin.
This only solidified the gang’s position as the most dominant drug cartel in Mexico.