Shooting with one fatality next to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, three policemen also injured. Shooting with one fatality next to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez which hosts for the Mexico City.

– A robber was killed in a shootout with police after stealing a vehicle.
– Three policemen were also injured and a taxi driver was injured by a gunshot wound.

A 35-year-old man who had fled after stealing a vehicle has been killed in a shootout with police near the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, which is hosting the Mexican GP this weekend.
Mexico City’s Secretariat for Citizen Security has reported the incident. Police tried to intercept the thief and stopped him, but he opened fire on the officers, who responded.

The final balance is one dead – the robber, a man of about 35 years of age -, one civilian injured – a taxi driver who was in the vicinity and was hit by a bullet – and three policemen injured. Of the latter, one was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen and another was also evacuated after being run over. The third was treated at the scene without further consequences.
The SCC reported that “the events occurred when the police officers were following a car which, according to the investigations in the office and in the field, is possibly related to the robbery of a driver and vehicle in the northern part of the city”.

“When the vehicle was stopped at 47th Street and 14th Avenue in the Ignacio Zaragoza colony, in the Venustiano Carranza district, the crew fired shots at the officers,” adds the statement, which points out that the occupants of the vehicle were the ones who opened fire. That address corresponds to one of the avenues bordering the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, the circuit hosting this weekend’s Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix. The getaway car was intercepted in the Granjas Mexico neighbourhood of Iztacalco, also in the vicinity of the Grand Circus venue. The vehicle is now in the possession of the authorities, who have opened an investigation to clarify all the details.