On the evening of February 9, a Mexican navy helicopter hovering over the city of Tepic in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit laced a home with a six-second stream of machine-gun fire.
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A kingpin's killing puts the complexity and brutality of Mexico's drug war on vivid display
A Mexican governor praised a recent operation — in which a helicopter opened fire on a home in a city in western Mexico — as "surgical."
Police guard an area after a gun battle in which a suspect identified by authorities as the leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel was killed, Nayarit, Mexico, February 10, 2017.
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Mexican officials said the gunfire came because gunmen had shot at marines with "high-caliber" weapons in the area and then barricaded themselves in the upper level of a house.
One official told the Associated Press that the Black Hawk helicopter had been called in for "dissuasive fire," meant to suppress fire from the house.
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