Shocking moment assassins in Mexico ambush a police pickup truck and shoot cop who was responding to a fake emergency call
Surveillance camera footage has captured the moment a pair of gunmen opened fire on a police pickup truck speeding to a faked emergency call in Mexico, leaving one of the officers inside wounded.
The shooting was one of two ambushes targeting the Municipal Police during a 15-hour period spanning Sunday night into Monday afternoon in Tijuana, with the second attack seeing two more officers hurt.
The camera footage shows two men armed with assault rifles stepping out of an alleyway in the Tijuana neighborhood Tres de Octubre on Monday at 1:07pm local time.
A pair of gunmen were caught on camera ambushing a police unit that was responding to a fake emergency call in Tijuana, Mexico, on Monday
A Tijuana Municipal Police pickup truck accelerates down a street in the Tres de Octubre neighborhood after it came under fire Monday afternoon
One of the shooters can be seen shielding himself next to a building wall as a pedestrian crossed the street. Moments later, his accomplice steps forward before they started shooting at the cops who were rushing to a call.
One of the law enforcement agents was struck in the face and was rushed to a local hospital, where he remains in serious condition.
Two Municipal Police agents also responding to a distress call in the Tres de Octubre neighborhood came under attack as shots were fired at them from a vacant lot Sunday at 10:24pm, newspaper El Imparcial reported.
One of the agents was grazed in the head by a bullet while his partner suffered a leg wound.
Both agents were treated by the local Red Cross paramedics and rushed to separate area hospitals and were said to be in stable condition.
A pedestrian walks past two men holding assault rifles as they opened fire on a police pickup truck in Tijuana, Mexico, on Monday.
According to Pedro Cruz, chief of the Tijuana Security and Civilian Protection Ministry, the assailants were seeking to disrupt the ongoing police work that has been crucial in areas of the city where agents stood away from in the past.
'They were sent to respond to an emergency that took them to a place and there was an ambush,' Cruz said. 'That is cruel, it is the work of criminals. It is an advantage when the police are doing their job well.'
As of Tuesday afternoon, authorities had not made any arrests related to either shooting incident.