Congresswoman Judy Chu meets with Mexican Ambassador about Bobby Salcedo murder

It’s been more than two weeks since unknown gunmen murdered El Monte School Board member Bobby Salcedo in Mexico.

Today Salcedo’s Congresswoman pressed Mexico’s visiting ambassador to quickly solve the case.

Democratic Congresswoman Judy Chu says the homicide investigation is in the hands of local police in Durango, Mexico. But during a meeting in Washington, she urged Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan to direct national resources toward the case.

Chu says local police found shell casings around the bodies "and the local police don’t have the resources to analyze them. So already, just to analyze the casings they have to go elsewhere."

Chu says there’s red tape: establishing a legal basis for allowing the Mexican Attorney General to intervene in a local investigation. She says Ambassador Sarukhan understands that the United States — and particularly people in the San Gabriel Valley — will want this crime solved as soon as possible.