EVACUATE TWO MUSICIANS narcocorridos singer suffers attack, killing two companions
composer Gerardo Ortiz 20 years comes out unscathed from the attack, perpetrated by gunmen in Colima against his truck
MEXICO CITY, March 21 .- The singer narcocorridos Gerardo Ortiz escaped injury in a shooting attack carried out by a group of gunmen in the state of Colima against a van that was traveling along with four others, two of whom died and one was injured, officials said Monday.
The attack was made on Sunday after ending a presentation by Gerardo Ortiz, a 20 year old that is characterized by composing and performing narcocorridos in which tells the stories of drug bosses and hit men.
The attackers used assault rifles AK-47, said a statement from the Attorney General of the State of Colima, western Mexico.
The fatalities were identified as Abel Valle Rosales, 59, driver of the singer, and Ramiro Caro, 31, representative of the artist. In addition, a woman whose name was not released, was wounded, the source said.
Gerardo Ortiz and his father were not injured, "the Attorney General to detail that aggression occurred when five people were traveling in a van on the outskirts of Colima, capital of the state of the same name.
Seconds after the attack came to the aid of the victims were men who took Ortiz and his father, said the Office of Justice of Colima.
The singer's website reported that Ortiz is physically well, but "devastated and shocked. For obvious reasons, do not give interviews to any media."
Gerardo Ortiz, as has been told in interviews, writing songs since childhood and writes many of them based on violent stories they read in newspapers or tell their friends, was born such as "Death and the hit man."
In one of his songs says: "If no good to kill, serve to kill you / I will go out in front before attacking me / with my chest and my horn (gun) I'm good at fighting-, hooded black and my army boots. "
Ortiz was born in Pasadena (California, USA), but grew up in several Mexican states such as Sinaloa, Baja California and Jalisco. Currently residing in the U.S..
attacks narcocorridos singers in Mexico are frequent and says that is because her songs annoy kingpins because they are either engaged or composer rival chiefs refused to dedicate a track to a drug baron.
This same Sunday, according to local press, a bomb was thrown against the singer grupero "El Coyote" and his band the Holy Land when they made a presentation on the state of Nayarit, with three players injured.
was murdered in June grupero artist Sergio Vega, better known as "El Shaka", in northwestern Mexico.
Other victims in this wave of attacks against representatives of singers and bands in Mexico are gruperas Valentin Elizalde, author of "narcocorridos", killed in November 2006 and Zayda Peña, lead singer of "Zayda and the Guilty", attacked 2007 by a gunman at a hospital in Tamaulipas.
In September 2008 Marco Antonio Abdala Soto, representative bands "gruperas", was murdered in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, and 1 December of that year the victim of the gunmen was Sergio Gómez, lead singer of K- Paz de la Sierra ", surprised by a group of gunmen in Michoacán, who allegedly tortured him before killing
