Radio-Canada has learned that the key witness in the May killing of a Quebec man in Mexico was also found murdered — one week after he gave a deposition to Mexican authorities.
Victor Masson, 27, was shot dead in the Mexican beach town of Puerto Escondido on the Pacific coast on May 15. Prosecutors said the Saguenay, Que., man’s body was found in his car in a neighbourhood where few tourists stay.
One week later, a Mexican eyewitness, Sergio Ruiz Luengas, gave a statement to investigators, obtained by Radio-Canada, in which he identifies a man named Mario Omara Sanginez Lopez as the person responsible for Masson’s death. Sanginez Lopez was formally charged
