Mexico Trucker Online

MEXICO CITY — In the hours leading up to his slaying this week, Mexican singing star Sergio Gomez had a vision of impending death, a friend said.

“He told me, ‘You know what? I’m not afraid to die, and if I die it will be happy because I have taken the band to where I want it,’” said Humberto Duran, a backup singer of K-Paz de la Sierra, the band Gomez led that in just a few years has become hugely popular in both Mexico and the United States.

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The lead singer of well-known Mexican band K-Paz de la Sierra was abducted and strangled to death, adding to a list of performers killed in a violent crime wave.

Sergio Gomez, whose group had close ties to Chicago, and two music promoters, were seized by armed men in the western Mexican state of Michoacan in the early hours of Sunday after a show.

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