


On September 28, 1995, Mexican police officer Ernesto Cruz Jiménez boarded a subway car at La Raza station and opened fire on the passengers, killing two people and wounding five others.
Shortly before 6:00 a.m. on September 28, 1995, State of Mexico Judicial Police officer Ernesto Cruz Jiménez opened fire on passengers at the La Raza station on Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro. Cruz Jiménez was detained by an unarmed officer while attempting to flee the scene. The shooting initially left seven people wounded; a 50-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man later died in the hospital from their injuries. Cruz Jiménez later stated, "I did it because of the economic crisis; no one deserves to live through what we are living through," attributing his actions to his financial problems and emotional distress caused by the 1994 Mexican peso crisis. On April 27, 1998, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison at the Reclusorio Norte.