Vigilante Kills 4 Who Had Held Up a Busload of Mexico City Passengers The Associated Press
go to original November 1, 2016

Apparently outraged by constant robberies aboard commuter buses on the outskirts of Mexico City, an armed passenger fatally shot four men who had just held up a busload of passengers, prosecutors said Monday.

The case described by prosecutors in Mexico State, which borders the capital, was the latest instance of vigilante-style killings in the crime-plagued suburban bus system. In August, local media reported that an armed passenger in another part of Mexico State shot at four thieves on a bus, killing two of them.

The latest case began when four bodies were found Monday dumped along a major highway connecting Mexico's capital with the nearby city of Toluca. Suspicion initially focused on criminal gangs that sometimes dump bodies of victims in the area, but prosecutors said a bus ticket in one of the dead men's pockets led them to the bus driver, who told them what happened.

"Investigations have established the four suspects were thieves, who minutes before they lost their lives had stolen the possessions of passengers aboard a bus," the state prosecutors' office said.

"When the suspects were about to get off the bus, a passenger stood up and shot at them, causing injuries that killed the four," it said.

Prosecutors said the armed passenger retrieved the backpack in which the thieves had stowed stolen items and returned them to passengers, then got off and fled.

In recent months, authorities have stationed police at bus stations and aboard buses, though that has done little to reassure the millions of residents who use the buses and crowded freeways each day to get to their jobs in Mexico City.

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