Footage showed Alfredo Cabrera smiling and flanked by fans before he was shot several times. Officials said 'the alleged assailant was killed at the scene.'
Mexico 's campaign season came to a bloody end as a gunman shot dead an aspiring mayor at a rally on Wednesday, days before the country is expected to elect its first woman president. His murder brings the number of candidates who have been murdered to at least 23 during what has been a particularly violent electoral process in the Latin American nation, according to an official count.
Frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum, from the ruling Morena party, ended her campaign with a rally in the capital's main public square.'We're going to make history,' Sheinbaum told the cheering crowd.'I say to the young women, to all the women of Mexico -- colleagues, friends, sisters, daughters, mothers and grandmothers -- you are not alone,' the 61-year-old said.
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