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“The North Carolina grade-school teacher found shot to death last week in Mexico may have been mistaken for an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent in the small town of Urique, according to Mexican news outlets El Sol de Mexico and El Diario.
People in the area reportedly told El Sol de Mexico that Davidson College graduate Patrick Braxton-Andrew aroused suspicion because he ‘asked a lot’ of questions about local culture and was ‘a gringo (who) spoke Spanish so well, unlike other tourists.’
[SBM]
Investigators in northern Mexico have not said why 34-year-old Braxton-Andrew was killed on Oct. 28, but Chihuahua Gov. Javier Corral said in a Nov. 15 Facebook post that the person responsible was a well-known drug trafficker in that region named Jose Noriel Portilo Gil.
The same post also dispelled as ‘absolutely false’ any idea that the teacher was killed trying to buy drugs, calling him ‘a totally innocent person.’
[SBM]
The Mexican news outlet El Dario said Braxton-Andrew was in the town of Urique when he left his hotel on October 28 ‘and crossed paths with a drug trafficker from the Sinaloa cartel and was killed.’
The Herald of Chihuahua reports Gil’s followers came to believe the teacher was an undercover agent because of his interest in local culture and the places he visited while asking questions, including areas along the Urique River.
Gil is well-known to Urique residents for controlling ‘the transfer of drugs in the region through the ... armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel,’ the newspaper reported.
Braxton-Andrew had been shot with a 9 mm caliber gun, reported the Herald of Mexico.
Chihuahua Gov. Corral’s Facebook post does not make clear if investigators believe Gil himself killed the teacher or if they suspect one of the drug dealer’s associates.” (BBM)
Drug cartel killed NC teacher thinking he was DEA agent, Mexican newspapers report
People in the area reportedly told El Sol de Mexico that Davidson College graduate Patrick Braxton-Andrew aroused suspicion because he ‘asked a lot’ of questions about local culture and was ‘a gringo (who) spoke Spanish so well, unlike other tourists.’
[SBM]
Investigators in northern Mexico have not said why 34-year-old Braxton-Andrew was killed on Oct. 28, but Chihuahua Gov. Javier Corral said in a Nov. 15 Facebook post that the person responsible was a well-known drug trafficker in that region named Jose Noriel Portilo Gil.
The same post also dispelled as ‘absolutely false’ any idea that the teacher was killed trying to buy drugs, calling him ‘a totally innocent person.’
[SBM]
The Mexican news outlet El Dario said Braxton-Andrew was in the town of Urique when he left his hotel on October 28 ‘and crossed paths with a drug trafficker from the Sinaloa cartel and was killed.’
The Herald of Chihuahua reports Gil’s followers came to believe the teacher was an undercover agent because of his interest in local culture and the places he visited while asking questions, including areas along the Urique River.
Gil is well-known to Urique residents for controlling ‘the transfer of drugs in the region through the ... armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel,’ the newspaper reported.
Braxton-Andrew had been shot with a 9 mm caliber gun, reported the Herald of Mexico.
Chihuahua Gov. Corral’s Facebook post does not make clear if investigators believe Gil himself killed the teacher or if they suspect one of the drug dealer’s associates.” (BBM)
Drug cartel killed NC teacher thinking he was DEA agent, Mexican newspapers report
