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MEXICO CITY — The leader of the La Familia drug cartel was killed in a shootout during two days of fighting between federal police and gunmen that terrified civilians across a western Mexican state, the government said Friday.
The death of Nazario Moreno Gonzalez — nicknamed “The Craziest One” — is a blow to a drug cartel that rose to national prominence four years ago by rolling severed heads into a nightclub and declaring that its mission was to protect Michoacan state from rival gangs and petty criminals.
Police think the 40-year- old Moreno — also known as “El Chayo” or “The Doctor” — was killed in a clash Thursday. Cartel gunmen have been fleeing with their casualties, and Moreno’s body has not been recovered.
