A suspect in the brazen broad light shooting attack on a US consulate official in Mexico has been arrested and it\u2019s emerged he\u2019s a US citizen who will be deported to face inquiry at home, Mexican authorities have announced.<\/p>\n
\u201cA US citizen was identified and detained for his presumed involvement in the case. This person will be deported to the United States, to determine his legal situation,\u201d<\/em> Sputnik quoted a statement released by the Mexican Federal Attorney General’s Office on Sunday.<\/p>\n The official was shot while in his car at a parking lot in Guadalajara on Friday. The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the chest, according to Reuters citing a source.<\/p>\n The consulate employee was later identified as Christopher Ashcraft, according to an unnamed Mexican security official, cited by Reuters. The victim is recovering at a local hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n The identity of the suspect, as well as the motive remain unknown. Mexican authorities said that their investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n US Secretary of State John Kerry thanked the Mexican government for its \u201cswift arrest of suspect in attack on USCG Guadalajara colleague.\u201d<\/p>\n The US Consulate at Guadalajara had previously released CCTV footage from multiple cameras, showing the suspect executing the attack on the official in a broad daylight. The FBI had offered a reward of $20,000 for information on the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A suspect in the brazen broad light shooting attack on a US consulate official in Mexico has been arrested and it\u2019s emerged he\u2019s a US citizen who will be deported to face inquiry at home, Mexican authorities have announced. \u201cA US citizen was identified and detained for his presumed involvement in the case. This person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-289229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}