The latest: A wave of organized-crime violence terrorizing many parts of Mexico is driving fear into the heart of the entertainment business with the murders of several popular musicians, suggesting that no one is immune to the rampant brutality.
Most disquieting were the weekend slayings of two singers who had crooned only about love and loss, not drugs and guns like some "narcocorrido" celebrities killed in the past.
Fears stirred: The murders of Sergio Gomez, lead performer for the top-selling group K-Paz de la Sierra, and Zayda Pena of the group Zayda and the Guilty Ones has mainstream singers worrying that they might become targets by becoming identified with one or another of Mexico's warring drug gangs.
Revenge attack? Meanwhile, gunmen shot and killed a deputy police chief inside his house in the Mexican border city of Tecate on Tuesday, officials said. The killing of Jose Soriano, 35, came a day after a U.S. Border Patrol agent found a secret tunnel that might have been used to smuggle drugs across the border from Tecate.
Soriano was shot in his bedroom, where 45 shell casings were found, state prosecutors said.
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