Carjacking or targeted hit? Questions surround attack on SUV carrying governor’s granddaughter

Two constabulary officers were wounded connected Tuesday erstwhile a conveyance successful which a granddaughter of Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya was traveling came nether occurrence successful Culiacán.

The equipped onslaught occurred successful wide daylight connected the Jesús Kumate Boulevard, located successful the southbound of Culiacán, the superior of Sinaloa and the epicenter of a yearlong warfare betwixt rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Respecto a la agresión sufrida a elementos de la SSP Sinaloa en Culiacán, derivada de un intento de despojo de camioneta, informo que los agentes lesionados ya reciben atención médica. En el vehículo viajaba mi nieta, quien resultó ilesa. Seguiremos trabajando con firmeza para…

— Rubén Rocha Moya (@rochamoya_) September 24, 2025

Rocha said successful a societal media station that his granddaughter was not injured. The sanction and property of his granddaughter person not been publically disclosed. She is the girl of the governor’s daughter, Eneyda Rocha, who is the president of the DIF household services bureau successful Sinaloa. The paper El País reported that “the minor” was being taken to her location successful an upscale lodging property successful Culiacán erstwhile the onslaught occurred.

Rocha — who has faced disapproval for his government’s effect to unit successful Sinaloa — said that the onslaught was related to an effort to bargain the SUV successful which his granddaughter and the 2 constabulary officers were traveling. That assertion amounted to a denial that his granddaughter had been targeted.

The conveyance was deed by astatine slightest 8 bullets. The constabulary officers returned fire, but determination were nary reports of the aggressors having sustained immoderate injuries. The Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office is investigating the crime.

The politician and the Sinaloa Public Security Ministry (SSP) said connected Tuesday that the injured constabulary officers — who some beryllium to the authorities constabulary force’s extortion services part — were receiving aesculapian care. One serviceman was reported to beryllium successful superior condition.

The SSP said that a autobus was besides deed by bullets during the attack, but nary 1 successful that conveyance was injured.

The onslaught occurred amid tightened information successful Culiacán arsenic members of the national information cabinet, including Security Minister Omar García Harfuch and National Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, were successful the Sinaloa superior connected Tuesday for a meeting. The battle connected the conveyance successful which Rocha’s granddaughter was traveling came hours aft that meeting, the Reforma paper reported.

Two constabulary officers were escorting the girl of Eneyda Rocha (pictured above) erstwhile they were deed by 8 bullets yesterday. (sinaloa.gob.mx)

Eneyda Rocha expressed her gratitude to the constabulary officers who were with her girl erstwhile the onslaught occurred.

“To them and their families, each my designation and solidarity. Thank you,” she wrote connected societal media.

Questions arise 

In its study astir the attack, Reforma raised questions astir Rocha’s assertion that the purpose of the aggressors was to bargain the SUV successful which his granddaughter and the constabulary officers were traveling.

The paper questioned wherefore the attackers would effort to bargain a conveyance successful which equipped constabulary were traveling. Reforma besides questioned wherefore the assailants would effort to bargain a conveyance connected a engaged avenue, and wondered whether they would person taken “a shot-up, unusable truck.”

In addition, the paper questioned wherefore the aggressors would onslaught an “official vehicle” connected a time erstwhile García Harfuch was successful Culiacán.

With reports from Reforma