Late Sunday evening, Mexican authorities confirmed that the leader of the Knights Templar Cartel was killed in an early-morning shootout with troops despite being declared dead by authorities in 2010. Alejandro Rubido, security spokesman for President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration, said that despite the December 2010 announcement Moreno had been killed in a shootout with federal police, national government officials taking over Michoacan in January investigated reports that he was alive. Tomas Zeron, head of the criminal investigation unit for the federal Attorney General's Office, said the body of Nazario Moreno Gonzalez had been confirmed 100 percent by fingerprints. The Mexican military had been tracking Moreno and marines and soldiers confronted him in Timbuscatio, a town in the remote mountains of the western Michoacan, his cartel's headquarters. Upon being met with resistance, troops fired upon Moreno and killed him,
-William B. Robinson #PSC222
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