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,