12 Die in Northern Mexico
Twelve individuals died in ongoing drug and gang related violence which included a Juarez CIPOL agent shot to death Friday night and two Santiago, Nuevo Leon police officers shot to death Saturday morning.
- Four unidentified individuals were shot to death at a block party in Juarez, according to Mexican press reports. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Portal del Mango and Puerto Vallarta in the Portal del Roble II district, where a number of people were drinking at a party. A single armed suspect shot eight people, with four, three men and a woman, dying at the scene. Witnesses say an AK-47 was used and more than 100 shots were fired.
- A farm was set afire by unidentified suspect near Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday, according to Mexican news reports. The farm near Km. Marker 33 on the Chihuahua-Ciudad Juarez highway was owned by a CIPOL agent who had been apparently threatened in the past by drug gangs. No victims were found on the property by police.
- An unidentified Juarez CIPOL agent was shot to death in his home Friday night, say Mexican news reports. CIPOL is a detective squad.
The attack took place near the intersection of calles Portal de Cupido and Ramacoi, del Fraccionamiento Complejo Integral Aeropuerto district. Investigators say more than 20 shot were fired.
- A man was found shot to death in his car in Parral Chihuahua Friday night, say Mexican press reports. Jesus Humberto DomÃÂnguez Palma, 27, was found shot in the head in his Chevrolet sedan on Avenida Santa Barbara near a business called Duraplay de Parral.
- A man was found shot to death on a farm near Nogales, Sonora Thursday night, say Mexican press reports. Amadeo Rivas Carlos Duarte, 45, was found near the Kennedy district between calle Marathon and the access road to Cerro de los Portales. He had been shot multiple times with an AK-47 assault rifle, a .45 caliber weapon and a 9mm weapon.
This is the 136th murder so far in calender 2010 for Nogales, most of those using AK-47 assault rifles.
- Two unidentified Santiago, Nuevo Leon police officers were shot to death in an apparent ambush early Saturday morning. The attack took place when two police patrols on Carretera Nacional between the Antonio Villalón Tamez and Jardines de la Boca district came under fire from armed suspects. Two officers were forced from their vehicles to take refuge between the homes and when one of them ran out toward his patrol unit, he was killed.
The second officer was intercepted and killed after a brief hunt by the armed suspects nearby.
- Three men were found shot to death in a car in the Chihuahua rural community of Lazaro Cardenas Thursday evening, according to Mexican press reports. Carlos Ignacio Martinez Salinas, 20, Miguel Angel Perez Guerrero, 24, and Juan Alberto Martinez Pinon, 25 were found dead inside a Pontiac sedan near the intersection of calles Madero and Emiliano Zapata near the Abraham Gonzälez Primary school. All three had been shot to death.
One of them victim was identified as a Chihuahua police officer, although the name was not released.
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