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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2007 
If at First You Don't Succeed...
 Associated Press
A man who tried to commit by throwing himself onto the tracks of the Mexico City subway was later beaten to death by police, prosecutors said Saturday.
Two policemen who took custody of the man after he was removed from the tracks on Thursday were charged with homicide for allegedly beating him to death in a patrol car, the Mexico City attorney general's office said in a statement.
Truck driver Albano Ramirez Santos, reportedly despondent over the theft of his truck, tried to kill himself by jumping onto the subway tracks. Trains were halted but Ramirez Santos told a subway conductor to leave him where he was because he wanted to die. Station employees removed him from the tracks.
Police were summoned and officers Jose de Jesus Sanchez Lemus and Carmelo Campechano Granados took the truck driver to a police station. But Ramirez Santos was unconscious when they arrived and a forensic report said he died of blows to the chest and head unrelated to the suicide attempt.
Prosecutors offered no motive for the alleged homicide. |
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