11 Die in Chihuahua
Eleven individuals were murdered in drug and gang related vilence in the state of Chihuahua, which included five individuals shot to death in a bar in Juarez early Sunday morning.
- An unidentified man and a child were wounded in a crossfire of an intergang firefight in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday, say Mexican news accounts. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Libertadores and 17 de Junio in the San Patricio colony where two groups of armed suspects were firing at one another from moving vehicles.
- A former prison warden and his son were both shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday evening, according to Mexican news accounts. Gerardo Ortiz Arellano and his son, Jesus Gerardo Ortiz DomÃÂnguez, were shot in a small arms attack near the corner of avenidas Juan Pablo II and Fuerza Aérea Mexicana riding aboard their Ford Explorer, trying to escape that attack. The two victims were caught at the Guadalupe bridge before they were felled by the attack. Ortiz Arellano was director of the Juarez municipal Centro de Readaptacion Social for three years and had held a post with the Chihuahua state attorney's office overseeing prisons.
- Five individuals were shot to death and another eight were wounded in an early Sunday morning attack at a bar in Juarez, say Mexican news accounts. Reports say armed suspects comprising adolescents entered the Desperados bar at 0100 hrs near the intersection of Flores and Cordillera de los Andes in the La Cuesta colony and started shooting. The suspects arrived at the bar aboard two vehicles and when they entered the bar they shot across the dance floor at a table where the victim sat. Desperados has been the site of three prior, similar attacks.
- Three individuals were found murdered in Juarez Sunday morning in two separate crimes, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. Two unidentified men were found gagged with tape, tortured and shot near the intersection of Calle Adayacentes and Avenida La Raza in the Electrolux colony. Another individual was found shot to death in the Parajes de San Jose colony.
- An man in his 30s was shot to death in a park in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican news accounts. Roberto Mendez, 30, was shot on calle Plaza Heligan in the Jardines del Sol colony, brought down after armed suspects aboard a van pursued the victim before shooting him.
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