Mexican Businessman Cheats Death Twice In One Day After Female Assassin Botches Hit

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In a jaw-dropping sequence of events that sounds more like a low-budget action movie than real life, a Veracruz trucking businessman miraculously survived two separate assassination attempts by the same amateur female hitwoman on a single afternoon – only to turn the tables and kill her himself during a chaotic roadside gunfight.

The wild drama unfolded on October 29, 2024, in the dusty colonia La Sabana area of Las Choapas, Veracruz, when union leader and transport entrepreneur Juan Antonio Bautista López was sitting in his shiny red 2024 Ford Ranger pickup truck.

Security camera footage shows a woman – later identified as 28-year-old Perla Cristal Torres Ramos from Cunduacán, Tabasco – casually approaching the vehicle on foot while carrying a handbag. In a move that would make any professional sicario cringe, she suddenly pulled a pistol from the bag and opened fire at point-blank range, blasting multiple rounds at the driver’s side window.

López, spotting the threat in the nick of time, flung himself backward and reclined his seat to dodge the barrage. One bullet still slammed into the right side of his neck/jaw and exited the other side of his face. Bleeding heavily but incredibly still conscious, the tough businessman somehow managed to put the truck in gear and drive himself toward the local hospital.

What happened next was pure chaos, and pure luck for López. Minutes later, as he raced for medical help, the same woman reappeared, having quickly changed her clothes. This time she was riding as a passenger on a motorcycle driven by a male accomplice. In an astonishingly clumsy coincidence, the bike slammed into the side of his truck at an intersection.

The motorcycle driver immediately fled on foot, leaving the female assassin on the ground. She still had her gun and opened fire again. This time, however, López was armed with his own legally owned firearm. He returned fire from inside the cab, striking her in the neck with a bullet that exited through her back. She collapsed and died at the scene next to the crashed motorcycle and the bullet-riddled red pickup.

Local authorities later confirmed the woman was a known associate of a local Tabasco gang and determined López had acted in legitimate self-defense. He was briefly detained but released after the video evidence and investigation cleared him. The body of Torres Ramos was claimed by her family and returned to Tabasco.

Sources say López has previously faced threats linked to labor and business disputes in the rough southern Veracruz region. In May 2025 he even survived a third nighttime attack when gunmen riddled his home with bullets while he and his family slept – a bullet striking near his pillow.

The viral security footage has left viewers stunned at just how close the call was. Had the hitwoman been anything close to a competent professional instead of this spectacularly inept operator who failed twice in one afternoon, missed her target at close range, crashed her getaway bike into her own victim’s truck, and then got herself shot dead, the outcome could have been very different. As one local put it: this guy didn’t just get lucky, he got the worst assassin in Mexico.

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