15 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of fifteen individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican states including a female Meoqui, Chihuahua police chief ambushed while on her way to work Monday morning.
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- An unidentified man was shot to death Sunday evening in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was driving his Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck near the corner of calles Tecnologico and Sierra Blanca in the La Cuesta colony, when he was shot by two armed suspects who then fled the scene. The driver died instantly crashing his vehicle into a pole in front of the Smart store in La Cuesta.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Sunday afternoon, say Mexican news reports. The victim was gagged with duct tape and his hands and feet bound with plastic ties, shot twice in the head near the intersection of calles Jesus Urueta and Constitucion. The victim had been tortured.
- An unidentified man was found immolated late Sunday night in Juarez say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found in a park near the corner of calles Navarra and Privada de Francia in the Santa Rosa colony still smoldering.
- A man's severed head was found in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Sunday night, according to Mexican news reports. The victim was found near the intersection of avenidas Dostoievsky and Sosa Vera in the Chihuahua 200 colony atop a foam cooler. The contents of a message inside the cooler was not revealed by authorities. The man's torso was later found Monday morning on an extension of Avenida Industrias north of the city.
- A female police chief of Meoqui, Chihuahua was shot to death Monday morning say Mexican news accounts. Hermila Garcia Quiñones was driving her personal Nissan Sentra through the Meoqui-Julimes cordillera when she was ambushed by armed suspects at the edge of Los GarcÃÂa.
- A Chihuahua rancher was murdered and his body mutilated near the US border Monday, according to Mexican news accounts. Jose Rodriguez Moreno, 33, was abducted Sunday night fro his ranch El Rancho Los Cachorros, and his mutilated body was dumped on the streets of Villa Ahumada.
- An unidentified man and woman were found murdered in Juarez in two separate crimes Monday, say Mexican news daily La Polaka. The female victim was shot more than 20 times and left on the streets near the intersection of calles Sonora and Armando B. Chavez. In the village of San Agustin a male victim was found dead in an irrigation canal just behind the library.
- Another unidentified skeleton was found in the La Mesa colony just south of Nogales, Sonora Saturday evening, say Mexican news accounts. The victim had no head or arms, and was buried in sand in a creek bed. The find was made only a few meters away from an area where 10 other victims were found four weeks ago.
- Six individuals were murdered in separate crimes Tijuana, Baja California, according to the Mexican news daily Frontera. An unidentified man in his late 30s in a state of decomposition was found beaten to death on a dirt road in the Xicotencatl colony at about 1030 hrs Saturday morning. At 1720 hrs in the El Florido colony, Jorge Apolinar Gonzalez Reyes, 31, was found shot five times on a football field. Several .45 caliber spent shell casings were found at the scene. At 1845 hrs on privada Balsamo in the Villas de Campo colony, Luis Octavio Covarrubias Solis, 37, was found shot four times in the head. Five 9mm empty shell casings were found at the scene. On Sunday at about 0200 hrs, on calle Himalaya in the Cumbres colony, in the Playas de Tijuana delegation, Aldo Cruz Garcia, 23, was found beaten to death. In the El Lago colony an unidentified man was found shot to death. A sixth victim was found also shot to death in the El Dorado colony.
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