MEXICO CITY (AP) — The teenage attacker who shot and killed a popular mayor in western Mexico was a known methamphetamine addict, but organized crime was also involved in the assassination, state authorities said Thursday.

Uruapan Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo was shot Saturday night in the town’s historic center in front of dozens of people gathered for Day of the Dead festivities. Manzo was hit seven times and died later at a hospital.

On Thursday, Michoacan state prosecutor Carlos Torres Piña named the gunman as 17-year-old Víctor Manuel Ubaldo Vidales, who was shot and killed by the mayor’s security detail.

Torres Piña, who told a news conference that the shooter’s body had been identified by his relatives, said more than two people were involved and that the attack was tied to organiz

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