26 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of 26 individuals were murdered in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico including a mother and her daughter shot to death Thursday.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Tuesday night. The victim was on calles Miguel de la Madrid and Garambullo in the Heroes de la Revolucion colony when he was shot. Investigators at the scene found 12 9mm spent shell casings.
A man was shot to death in his residence in Juarez Wednesday. Ricardo Moreno Martinez, 32, was in the bedroom of his home near the intersection of Durango and Felipe Angeles in the Manuel Valdez colony, when armed suspects entered his bedroom and shot him nine times.
An unidentified man was found immolated in Juarez Thursday evening. The victim was found in an alley near the intersection of calles Juan Alvarez and Guillermo Lujan in the Barrio Chavena. The victim was still smouldering when he was found, and had been bound hand and foot.
Three unidentified men were found murdered in Juarez Thursday in three separate incidents, according to the Mexican news weekly La Polaka.
- A man was found dead with a plastic bag over his head on Calle Berilio on the Niños Héroes colony.
- A man was found shot to death in the village of Praxedis in the Valle de Juärez municipality near the intersection of calles Guerrero and Acosta.
- A man was found dead on Camino Real.
A man was found mutilated in the streets of Chihuahua, Chihuahua late Thursday night. The victim was found near the intersection of Avenida Juan Escutia and Juan de Barreda in the northern zone of the city. A message was written on the torso as a warning to enemies of La Linea, the armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel.
Two women were shot to death early Thursday morning in Juarez. The victims were near the intersection of Avenida Juan Escutia and Juan de Barreda in the Zona Centro when they were shot in the back by a male teen. Reports say the victims may have been a mother and her daughter.
An unidentified man was found dead in Juarez late Thursday night. The victim had been placed in the trunk of a Dodge Stratus parked near the intersection of calles Mexicas and Tarahumaras in the Azteca colony. A message was left with the corpse as a warning to police.
The employee of a liquor store was shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday. The victim was left behind the counter of the store near the intersection of avenidas Colon and Niños Heroes in the Zona Dorada.
An man was found shot to death in Nogales, Sonora Wednesday. Salvador Ortiz Perez, 49, was shot in his apartment on Calle Astolfo R. Cardenas on the Infonavit 5 de Mayo colony. Several 9mm spent cartridge casings were found at the scene.
A man was pursued and shot in Nogales, Sonora Thursday afternoon. Hector Avila Moreno was found near the intersection of calles General Piña and Zacatecas in the San Benito colony. He was shot five times with an AK-47 assault rifle.
A woman was found strangled and beaten to death in Tijuana, Baja California Thursday morning. Guadalupe Carrillo Bonilla, 45, was kidnapped May 16th along with her son, José Manuel Medina Carrillo, 24. The victim was found on Avenida Desarrollo Agrario in the village of La Gloria in the San Antonio de los Buenos delegation. Five unidentified individuals were arrested earlier when Medina Carrillo was released with a bullet wound to his leg.
One unidentified youth was shot to death and three others were wounded in a shooting in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Wedneday. The shooting took place near Topo Chico hill in the Unidad Pedreras colony.
A youth died shortly after he left the hospital in Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon Wednesday,. Luis Oscar Castillo Garzagoitia died a short distance from the Hospital de Petroleos Mexicano. The victim had been brought to the hospital by friends with several gunshot wounds including one in the head. He dropped dead a shortly after leaving the hospital.
An unidentified man was found hacked to death near Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon Friday. The victim was found on Kilometer 218 of the Carretera Nacional with several wounds said to be made by a machete.
An city employee of Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon was run over by a vehicle Friday. Lorenzo Castilla Peña was hit near the intersection of Bulevar Miguel de la Madrid and the Läzaro Cardenas bridge.
Nine inmates at a Durango, Durango prison were killed in a riot Wednesday evening. The riot took place at the Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) Number One where inmates had gained access to at least ten firearms of differing calibers. Seven inmates were wounded in the brawl. |