The southern Chenove district where the killing occurred was known for drug trafficking, the prosecutor, Olivier Caracotch, said in a statement.

“A dozen shell casings used by an automatic weapon” were found in the street where the killing took place, he said.

Nearby vehicles and a third-floor apartment were hit by some of the shots, but there were no other casualties, he said.

The police criminal investigation unit determined the shooter had approached a group that included the victim around midnight, opened fire, and then escaped by car, Caracotch said.

The man killed lived in the city and had no police record for drug-related crimes, he said, adding that the investigation opened was for organised gang murder and criminal association.

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The man, from Memphis, Tennessee, was asleep beside his female partner when he was shot early Monday morning, escaping with a graze to his left thigh that was treated in hospital.

Police report said the dog — a year-old pit bull named Oreo — got his paw stuck in the trigger guard and ended up hitting the trigger.

It did not specify the type of weapon fired, and recorded the incident as accidental injury.

In 2018, a 51-year-old man from Iowa was shot in the leg by his pit bull-Labrador mix.

Reports said the Tennessee victim’s girlfriend, who was not named, as saying she was sleeping when the gun went off.

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Local media identified the slain judge as Edmundo Pinzon, president of the Superior Court of Justice in Guerrero state, saying he was shot at least four times in his car outside an Acapulco courthouse.

In October, the mayor of the state capital Chilpancingo was killed and decapitated just days after taking office.

Weeks later, armed clashes between alleged gang members and security forces left 19 people dead in the state. Last month, a dozen dismembered bodies were discovered in vehicles in Chilpancingo.

The Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that it was investigating the crime of aggravated homicide against Edmundo, in line with the usual practice of not giving full names.

The killing comes just over a week after President Claudia Sheinbaum led a meeting of the National Public Security Council in Acapulco, with state governors in attendance.

Spiraling violence, much of it linked to drug trafficking, has seen more than 450,000 people murdered in Mexico since 2006, when the government launched an offensive against organized crime.

Sheinbaum, who took office in October as Mexico’s first woman president, has ruled out launching a new war on drugs, as the controversial program was known.

She has pledged instead to stick to her predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s hugs not bullets strategy of using social policy to address the causes of crime.

Last year, 1,890 murders were recorded in Guerrero.

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