By El Heraldo:
Priest Marcelo Pérez Pérez, parish priest of the Guadalupe Church in San Cristóbal de las Casas , was murdered today by subjects aboard a motorcycle.
The priest was traveling in his vehicle after officiating a mass in the temple of the Cuxtitali neighborhood and was heading to the Guadalupe temple when unknown individuals, who were traveling on a motorcycle, shot him. At least four bullets hit the target. Father Marcelo, as he is known to his parishioners, has been linked to the self-defense group “El Machete” as well as the disappearance of 21 people in the municipality of Pantelhó . Approximately two years ago, an arrest warrant had been issued against him, but in response to protests from thousands of parishioners and the bishops of Mexico themselves , they demanded an end to the persecution.