Cozumel Records Highest Homicide Rate in Quintana Roo Following Recent Killings

Cancún, Quintana Roo — Cozumel recorded the highest homicide rate in Quintana Roo last week, with approximately 1.13 killings per 100,000 residents, according to official population data and a count of intentional homicides.

The island municipality, with a population of 88,626 according to INEGI (the national statistics agency), saw its rate spike after a young man was shot and killed on Tuesday afternoon. The victim was washing his motorcycle outside his home in the Taxistas neighborhood when attackers opened fire. He died while a relative was rushing him to a hospital.

Othón P. Blanco municipality recorded the second-highest rate, approximately 0.86 per 100,000 residents, after authorities found two executed men on Thursday on beaches in Xahuayxol, along the Mahahual-Xcalak corridor. The municipality has a population of 233,648.

In Playa del Carmen, a man was shot dead on Saturday in the In House neighborhood, resulting in a rate of about 0.45 homicides per 100,000 residents for the municipality, which has 224,472 inhabitants.

Despite a fatal shooting on Wednesday in Cancún’s Valle Verde neighborhood, the state’s most populous city recorded the lowest rate among affected municipalities at approximately 0.11 per 100,000, due to its large population of 911,503.

In total, five intentional homicides occurred across four Quintana Roo municipalities last week, illustrating how areas with smaller populations can show higher incidence rates even with fewer absolute cases.