printed banner draped over his tomb offers a deeper insight . It shows a photo of him alongside a marijuana plantation and an AK-47 assault rifle fitted with a 100-round ammunition drum . The drab grave of this cartel triggerman , at the Jardines de Humaya cemetery in state capital Culiacan , stands in stark contrast to the mausoleums of dead capos , or drug bosses . Those are elaborate two - and three-story constructions , some perhaps 25 feet high , made of bullet-proof glass , Italian marble and spiral iron staircases . A bricklayer at work in the cemetery told me the fanciest cost between $ 75,000 and $ 150,000 . He said grateful drug barons often pay for loyal hitmen to be buried here , the city 's toniest graveyard . Like so many other people we 've met over the last few weeks , he declined to give his name or speak on camera . `` I ca n't . El patron -LSB- the boss -RSB- would kill me , '' he said . Days later I track down Lupito 's cousin , Giovanni Garcia , on the phone . He 's an undertaker and by
Editor 's note : Journalist Karl Penhaul spent several weeks tracking the gangs of the Mexican underworld , the corrupt officials who support them and the cops trying to halt the violence . This is the second of three exclusive reports . Part one looked at the violent rules gangs live by . The faithful leave this `` Holy Death '' statue offerings including cigarettes and cocaine , visible in the nose . CULIACAN , Mexico -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A baseball cap dangles from a cement cross . The slogan on the hat reads `` power , money , respect . '' On the brim there 's the logo of the classic gangster movie `` Scarface . '' Etched on the gravestone , the words : `` Jesus Guadalupe Parra . 12 December 1986 to 25 August 2008 . '' `` Lupito , '' as friends and family knew him , went down in a hail of bullets before he reached 22 . Authorities said he died alongside three others in a gunfight with a rival drug gang high in the Sierra Madre mountain range that is the backbone of Mexico 's Pacific coast state of Sinaloa . A