translated from Spanish: Pay luctuose homage to police fallen in the shooting near Morelos Stadium in Morelia

Morelia, Michoacán.- This Friday the Secretary of Public Security, Israel Patrón Reyes, led a winsuous tribute to the fallen policeman in the line of duty, Ediel Ríos Villaseñor, who perished last Thursday in a shooting shoot against gatilleros in the Balcones del Quinceo colony that is in the vicinity of the Morelos State in this capital, a fact in which one of the alleged hitmen also perished.
The luctuous ceremony was in the facilities of the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP), located in the Independence Liberation in this city. In front of the relatives and comrades-in-arms of Ediel Rios, Israel Patron gave the National Flag to the deceased’s loved ones, which moments earlier had been placed on his coffin.
The sirens of the patrols were heard and the drums and trumpets announced the departure of a valuable policeman, whom his relatives and colleagues fondly remember, as a man committed to his work, to society and to his family.
The sSP headline spoke to the press about what happened on the day of the shooting: “It is learned that a group of armed civilians wanted to attack a neighbor of that colony where everything happened and one fortuitous case was that the elements of the Michoacán Police circulated they were around there and when they reach the corner they encounter an armed civilian who generates gun detonations, the cops react and deprive him of life.
“Unfortunately the shooting that the civilian made at first caused the death of one of the comrades. The civilian is fully identified, we have important scopes in the scheme of what happened yesterday, the Public Prosecutor’s Office is already working on the issue”.
Patrón Reyes detailed that so far in the year four elements of the Michoacán Police have died in the line of duty. He added that the state offers the families of these troops a pension, social security and life insurance, which is vented in terms of the possibilities of the Secretary of Finance and ranges from 350 to 750 thousand pesos, this depends on how he died The agent.

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