TIJUANA, Mexico — A singer and two members of his staff were found tortured and killed just south of the California border, apparently the latest victims in a string of slayings of Mexican musicians, state prosecutors said Wednesday.
Jesus Rey David Alfaro Pulido, 26, known as “El Gallito,” was found strangled and shot in the head last week in Tijuana, said a spokeswoman for the Baja California attorney general’s office. His manager and his assistant were also slain.
Alfaro was the latest Mexican musician killed in a string of murders that includes the December death of Sergio Gomez, lead performer for the top-selling group K-Paz de la Sierra, and the November 2006 slaying of Valentin Elizalde. Some of the dead were singers of so-called “narcocorridos,” or drug ballads.
