On Monday morning, the Director of Municipal Roads and Transit in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Francisco Javier Zazueta Lizárraga, was assassinated during an armed attack while on his way to work, local authorities reported. According to the Municipal Public Security Secretariat, the aggression occurred around 8:30 a.m. when the official left his home in the municipality of Aguarruto. He was driving a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck on Adolfo López Mateos Boulevard, at the height of the El Olmo Canal; at that point, armed men intercepted him from another vehicle and opened fire. Following the attack, Zazueta Lizárraga lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a pole. Minutes later, he was still alive when taken to a hospital in an ambulance, but he died later from his injuries. The official, known as 'Z-21', had assumed the head of the Transit Directorate on November 8, 2025, and had 32 years of service within the corporation. Agents from the state's Attorney General's Office for Investigations and Experts arrived at the scene to carry out the corresponding procedures, while a tow truck removed the pickup truck, which had bullet impacts and was abandoned on the median of the boulevard. You may also be interested: Attack in Zapopan occurred without police response despite security diamond: Saucedo. During the weekend, eight murders were reported in different parts of the Sinaloa capital, including the femicide of a 44-year-old woman, amid the dispute between the internal factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, Los Chapitos and La Mayiza. After the death was confirmed, the Municipal Public Security and Transit Secretariat of Culiacán lamented the death of its director and expressed condolences to family, friends, and colleagues. Meanwhile, the Sinaloa State Public Security Secretariat also expressed its condolences through social media.
