Esteban Robles Espinosa was the commander of Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

's Investigative Police Force. He headed Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

's anti-kidnapping unit until 2003 and served on the internal affairs commission. He was fatally shot down on 9 May 2008 around dawn by armed men, a day after the death of Federal Police chief Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez

Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez

Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez was a third-ranking member of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Security and acting commissioner of the Federal Preventive Police. Born in Mexico City, he received a law degree from the Universidad del Valle de México. After graduating he started his career in the Mexican...

, probably in retaliation for the recent crackdown on organized crime.