Funeral held for Indigenous priest killed in southern Mexico

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Parishioners gathered in the town of San Andres Larrainzar on Monday (October 21) to say their final goodbyes to a Mexican Catholic priest who was killed on Sunday (October 20) in the southern state of Chiapas after officiating a mass.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Parishioners gathered in the town of San Andres Larenzar on Monday to say their final goodbyes

00:08to a Mexican Catholic priest who was killed on Sunday in the southern state of Chiapas

00:14after officiating a mass.

00:16Marcelo Perez, who was Tzotzil, an indigenous Maya group native to the area, was leaving

00:22the neighborhood of Cuxtitali in San Cristobal de las Casas, one of the state's largest cities,

00:29returning to his home church nearby when he was killed.

00:33According to state prosecutors, two people on a motorcycle came up to his car, a white

00:39Ford, and shot him.

00:42Mexico has seen a streak of murders in the past few weeks, including the beheading of

00:46the mayor of the state capital of Guerrero and an intra-cartel war in Sinaloa, which

00:52has left hundreds dead or missing.

00:55Perez's community said that he had actively spoken out against organized crime in the

00:59area.

01:00At the funeral, dozens of mourning locals surrounded the coffin with the body of Perez

01:05and participated in a mass to honor him.

01:09During her morning conference on Monday, Mexican President Claudia Shinbaum lamented the killing

01:15and said an investigation is undergoing.

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