By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 15:02 EST, 9 October 2012 | UPDATED: 15:11 EST, 9 October 2012 The Executioner: Heriberto Lazcano was leader of the notorious Zetas cartel and is suspected to have masterminded hundreds of killings The body of one of Mexico's most feared drug barons - known as The Executioner - has been snatched from a funeral home just hours after he was killed outside a baseball game by marines. Heriberto Lazcano and an accomplice died in a hail of bullets in a firefight with Mexican forces in the lawless badlands of Progreso, Coahuila, about 80 miles west of the Texas border, near Laredo, on Sunday night.
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Heriberto Lazcano was leader of the notorious Zetas cartel and is suspected to have masterminded hundreds of killings
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Gunned down by Mexican marines 80 miles of Texas border
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US government had put a $5million price on his head
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Within hours, his body was snatched from morgue by armed gang
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He was one of a band of elite Mexican soldiers who defected in 1998 to work as hired guns for drug traffickers before forming Los Zetas cartel
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