Patricia Negrete Tafoya, a 45-year-old woman who had spent four years searching for her missing sister, was shot dead on the night of 23 June in Pénjamo, Guanajuato, according to state prosecutors. She was intercepted by two men on a motorcycle as she left her shift at the local hospital and was killed by multiple gunshots. Her death brings to four the number of women searchers murdered in Guanajuato since March 2026, local human rights groups say, and has drawn condemnation from Amnesty International, which described the killing as “profoundly alarming” and demanded an immediate, independent investigation.

In the same state, an armed attack on a bar in León during a broadcast of a Mexico national team match left two women dead and one customer injured late on Wednesday, authorities said. The victims were identified by local reports as a worker and the presumed owner of the establishment. Meanwhile, in Culiacán, Sinaloa, five people were shot dead and a child wounded in a series of attacks on Wednesday, according to the state prosecutor’s office. In one incident, gunmen stormed a home in the Infonavit Solidaridad neighbourhood, killing a woman, her minor son, and an unidentified man. A second attack in the República Mexicana colony killed a woman and injured a child, while a young food-delivery rider was shot dead in Santa Anita.

In Mexico City, two people were killed in a shooting in the Tepito market area on Thursday afternoon, the capital’s public security ministry reported. A 39-year-old woman who sold basket tacos from a cart died at the scene; a 50-year-old man later succumbed to his injuries in hospital. Hours earlier, a bicitaxi driver was shot dead in Iztapalapa after what witnesses described as a brawl, and a motorist died in hospital after being shot in the neck in Santo Tomás Ajusco, Tlalpan. No arrests have been announced in any of the capital’s cases.

Across the border in Brazil, police in Mato Grosso do Sul arrested two men suspected of killing a 72-year-old caretaker whose body was found in a sack in a wooded area near Campo Grande. In Itumbiara, Goiás, a 63-year-old supermarket cashier was found dead in her home; her partner, who has a history of domestic violence complaints, sent an audio message confessing to the killing and remains at large, the lead investigator said. All cases remain under active investigation, with authorities in both countries yet to confirm motives or establish links between the day’s scattered eruptions of lethal violence.