TV Azteca senior sales executive Yordi Peralta Samper and his wife, Mireya Lopez Portillo, were shot to death early Saturday morning in Mexico City.
A total of 50 bullets were found at the scene of the crime. The former director of national sales for TV Azteca in Mexico was shot five times, while his wife was shot seven times, including four bullets to the face.
According to local newspaper accounts, they were traveling in a company-owned Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited.
Lopez was the daughter of retired Mexican general Luis Humberto Lopez Portillo. Authorities considered her to have been the main target of the assassins, who used an Uzi submachine gun and a Hungarian-made rifle typically carried by federal security forces.
Mexican press reports citing unidentified law-enforcement sources have suggested but not substantiated a link between the murders and last week's seizure of $205 million in cash in a raid on drug traffickers.
Police said the cash consists of profits from the illegal trade in precursor chemicals such as ephedrine and pseudoephedrine that are used to manufacture methamphetamine.
