A judge and his wife were shot dead at home in the Mexican province of Colima on Tuesday.
Judge Uriel Villegas was at home with his wife Veronica Barajas when armed men burst into the house and started firing. The couple's two young daughters and a housekeeper survived the attack.
The province of Colima has Mexico's largest container port on the Pacific coast and has been the scene of a bloody battle between rival drug gangs for years. Colima had the highest murder rate of all provinces in Mexico in the past year.
The judge, in his forties, had only been appointed to Colima for four months, writes the Guardia Nocturna.
He handled the case of Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, the son of the leader of the infamous Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes aka El Mencho. The son was extradited to the US earlier this year.