Infant Gunned Down In Bloody Drug War!

This entire family — including an infant — was gunned down in the crossfire between rival gangs in the Mexican state of Oaxaca last weekend, but some hope that the shocking image of the dead child that just surfaced will mark a turning point in the war on drugs. Marco Pano, who was between 7 and 9 months old, took a bullet in the back along with his father, Juan Alberto Pano Colon, 24, and his mother, Alba Isabel Colon, 17, as the young family walked out of a convenience store in the Pinotepas Nacional.

This entire family — including an infant — was gunned down in the crossfire between rival gangs in the Mexican state of Oaxaca last weekend, but some hope that the shocking image of the dead child that just surfaced will mark a turning point in the war on drugs. Marco Pano, who was between 7 and 9 months old, took a bullet in the back along with his father, Juan Alberto Pano Colon, 24, and his mother, Alba Isabel Colon, 17, as the young family walked out of a convenience store in the Pinotepas Nacional.

The family was engulfed in a dispute "between two criminal gangs, fighting over control of drug trafficking in the area,” prosecutors said. Between four and seven people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the tragedy. The horrifying image of dead, diaper-clad baby Marco has been compared to the haunting photograph of Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi, the young boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach after his family tried to cross the sea while fleeing war in their homeland.