Documentarian killed in Mexico

MEXICO CITY — An activist who documented murders in one of Mexico’s deadliest cities has himself been killed, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

Adolfo Enríquez was killed in the city of Leon, in northcentral Guanajuato state.

The city has the thirdhighest number of homicides in Mexico, trailing only the border cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez.

Enríquez described himself on his social media profiles as an “activist, demanding a country with the rule of law.”

For years, Enríquez has posted a simple, moving tally of each murder in Leon, writing just hours before his death that “murder number 55 in Leon so far in November just occurred in the Margaritas neighborhood.”

He himself became murder victim number 56 late Tuesday, local police confirmed, without providing details on the attack. State prosecutors confirmed his death and said it was under investigation.

Local media reported Enríquez was shot to death after leaving a restaurant, and that the attacker fled on a motorcycle.

The number of murders in Leon in November was not remarkable.

In October, the city saw 64 murders, according to official figures.

Enríquez also posted videos of crimes like robberies and muggings, and appealed to the public for help in identifying the thieves.

He rose to national attention after he posted a compelling, tragic security camera video of the stabbing death of a woman in Leon in August.

The video helped spur authorities into action and arrest the man who attacked her.

Leon is an industrial hub which, like the rest of Guanajuato, has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Jalisco drug cartel and local gangs backed by the Sinaloa cartel.