Mexican judge shot point-blank while jogging

Mexican judge Vicente Antonio Bermúdez Zacarías, responsible for the suspension of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s extradition order in March 2016, was assassinated Monday morning in Metepec, a city in Mexico State, according to a report published by SDP Noticias.

Mexican federal officials said Bermúdez Zacarías was shot in the head by an unknown assailant who fled the scene, SDP Noticias reports.

Footage recorded by a security camera shows the judge jogging. A man runs up to him and shoots him point-blank in the back of of the head.

Several news outlets in Mexico published the graphic surveillance footage.

Paramedics rushed the wounded judge to a social security clinic in Metepec, where he was pronounced dead. Federal officials said the judge had not been assigned a security.

Guzman, the jailed leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, is being held in a federal prison near Juarez. Last week, a ould be extradited to the United States by early 2017.

Mexico’s national security commissioner says jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman could be extradited to the United States by early next year.

Renato Sales tells Televisa it could happen “in January or February.”

A lawyer for Guzman said recently that a court could rule on his extradition around the end of the year. But he says either side would then be able to appeal.