The 1987 Tijuana arcade shooting occurred in 1987 when Sinaloa Cartel lieutenant Joaquin Guzman Loera shot two Tijuana Cartel gunmen dead at a Tijuana arcade in retaliation for the Muelles warehouse attack.
Background[]
Following the Muelles warehouse attack in 1986, the Tijuana and Sinaloa plazas engaged in a series of tit-for-tat revenge attacks. While Guadalajara Cartel boss Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo warned the plazas to stop their nonsensical war, the owner of the Muelles warehouse and a high-ranking Sinaloa leader, Joaquin Guzman Loera, decided to take matters into his own hands.
Shooting[]
Guzman entered a Tijuana arcade frequented by Tijuana plaza enforcers, where he found two Tijuana sicarios playing "Street Fighter" on an arcade machine. He ambushed them with a pistol, shooting both of them from behind and shooting them once each while they were bleeding out on the floor. He promptly left the arcade, and his attack resulted in Tijuana's retaliation.
Aftermath[]
Tijuana boss Benjamin Arellano Felix's brother Ramon Arellano Felix retaliated by sending two hitmen to knife Sinaloa lieutenant Cochiloco's favorite mariachi musician to death outside of a restaurant. Cochiloco responded by kidnapping the two hitmen and running them over with an asphalt compactor, crushing them into a bloody mess. Felix Gallardo responded by sending Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno to reach out to Benjamin Arellano Felix and Sinaloa boss Hector Luis Palma Salazar, end the conflict, and settle on a number for the taxes the Sinaloans dodged.