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Judi Lynn

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Mon Mar 25, 2024, 12:20 PM Mar 2024

Ecuador's youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, and her adviser are found shot to death inside car

Updated on: March 25, 2024 / 6:41 AM EDT / CBS/AFP


Ecuador's youngest mayor was found shot to death Sunday, police said, as the South American country approaches its third month of a state of emergency decreed by the government to crack down on soaring gang violence.

Brigitte Garcia, the 27-year-old mayor of coastal San Vicente, was found dead along with her adviser, the municipality's communications director, Jairo Loor.

During the early hours of the morning "two people were identified inside a vehicle without vital signs, with gunshot wounds," the Ecuadoran national police said on social media.

Later, it added that the shots "were not fired from the outside of the vehicle but from the inside." Investigators are still analyzing the route taken by the car, which had been rented.

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One of Garcia's last posts on social media, where she touts herself as the nation's youngest mayor, was about a new project to bring water to her municipality.

More:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brigitte-garcia-killed-ecuador-youngest-mayor-adviser-shot-to-death/









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Ecuador's youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, and her adviser are found shot to death inside car (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2024 OP
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