According to Reuters' report the drug hitmen are those who have killed a popular Mexican singer along with his manager and assistant near the U.S. border, authorities said on Wednesday, February 20.
Jesus Rey David Alfaro Pulido is also known as El Gallito and this is the latest murder among musicians who sing "narcocorrido" ballads glorifying drug traffickers.
At least six Mexican folk singers, who play narcocorridos and upbeat, brassy "grupera" music, have been killed since Mexico's drug war flared in 2006.
Drug hitmen pinned a message on Alfaro's body saying "You'll be next," a taunt aimed at the thousands of soldiers sent by President Felipe Calderon to Tijuana to crush the drug gangs and clean up police forces working with the cartels, continues Reuters.
