[NY Post] A teenage assassin an assassin squad and his drug-kingpin uncle were killed during a shootout with security forces in the western Mexico state of Michoacán, the government said.Alberto "Chuchito Nini" Sandoval, 15, allegedly oversaw a team of hitmen and used his social media accounts as a tool to recruit other minors to the cartel, according to the Michoacán Attorney General’s Office.
| Precocious little lad. Must have been apprenticed into the family business when he was but a tot. |
Mexican military and National Guard troops were conducting an operation with the Michoacán Attorney General’s Office and the state police after receiving intelligence about Barragán’s whereabouts when they were met with gunfire at a ranch in the municipality of Tocumbo on Aug. 30, Mexico’s security ministry said.
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