{"id":82591,"date":"2026-04-20T20:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/gunman-kills-1-canadian-tourist-and-wounds-6-at-pyramids-north-of-mexico-city\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:53:42","slug":"gunman-kills-1-canadian-tourist-and-wounds-6-at-pyramids-north-of-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/gunman-kills-1-canadian-tourist-and-wounds-6-at-pyramids-north-of-mexico-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman kills 1 Canadian tourist and wounds 6 at pyramids north of Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-headline\">\n<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \"><span class=\"gtOSm FbbUW tUtYa vOCwz EQwFq yCufu eEak Qmvg nyTIa SRXVc vzLa jgBfc WXDas CiUCW kqbG zrdEG txGfn ygKVe BbezD UOtxr CVfpq xijV soGRS XgdC sEIlf daWqJ \">Mexico&#8217;s government says a Canadian tourist has been killed and six other people were wounded when a man fired a gun at the historic Teotihuacan pyramids, a tourist site outside Mexico&#8217;s capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">Mexico City &#8212; <\/span>A man with a gun opened fire on the historic Teotihuacan pyramids on Monday, killing a Canadian tourist and wounding six other people at the tourist site an hour north of the Mexican capital, the Mexican government said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The attacker later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Mexican authorities wrote in a statement. Officials said the injured were being given medical aid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The local government said four people were injured by gunfire and two others were injured by falls. The local government said the injured included Colombian, Russian and Canadian tourists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on social media that the shooting would be investigated and that she was in contact with the Canadian Embassy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;We are deeply saddened by what happened today in Teotihuacan. I express my deep solidarity with the affected individuals and their families,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico&#8217;s government says a Canadian tourist has been killed and six other people were wounded when a man fired a gun at the historic Teotihuacan pyramids, a tourist site outside Mexico&#8217;s capital. Mexico City &#8212; A man with a gun opened fire on the historic Teotihuacan pyramids on Monday, killing a Canadian tourist and wounding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1897,1315,271,272,3369,1370,19242,1208,2934],"class_list":{"0":"post-82591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-canadian","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-gunman","11":"tag-kills","12":"tag-mexico","13":"tag-north","14":"tag-pyramids","15":"tag-tourist","16":"tag-wounds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82597,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82591\/revisions\/82597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}