The Associated Press
ACAPULCO, Mexico- A former soldier killed his wife, infant nephew and a police officer in a vicious rampage that left 10 people dead before being wounded by police and killed by an angry crowd in southern Mexico, authorities said Sunday.
Oscar Flores, 35, killed his wife and nephew with a knife on Sunday morning before commandeering an assault rifle from a police officer for a shooting spree on the streets of San Jeronimo de Juarez, about 185 miles southwest of Mexico City, said Julio Lopez, the town’s deputy police chief.
“Apparently he was under the effects of drugs,” Lopez said.
Municipal police shot Flores in the abdomen on the town’s central square before machete-wielding residents attacked and killed the man. Police said they were overwhelmed by the residents and could not possibly have saved Flores.