38 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of 38 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang violence in northern Mexico including a Tubutama, Sonora police officer and his 14 year old son shot to death Saturday in Hermosillo, Sonora.
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- An unidentified man was found dismembered in Juarez early Saturday morning. The victim was found on Calle 20 de Noviembre with a message attached. The content of the message was undisclosed.
- Two men armed with AK-47 assault rifles robbed a money changer in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday morning. The Famsa shop robbed was near the intersection of avenidas Fuentes Mares and Nueva España.
- Two unidentified men and a women were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday. The shooting took place near a residence near the intersection of 12th and Ankara in the El Palomar colony where several armed suspects travelling aboard a pickup truck shot the trio. More than 50 spent shell casings were found at the scene.
- Four unidentified individuals were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday. The shooting took palce as the two victims were making repairs on a residence near the intersection of calles Rafaelo and Francisco de Goya in the Insurgentes colony. Two other victims parked in a nearby Ford Lobo (F-150) were shot and killed at the scene as well.
- Two inmates at a Juarez city prison were stabbed to death in a brawl Saturday night. Miguel Marquez Estrada, 23, and Jesus Adrian Ramirez, 23, had just entered the Juarez city Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) and were being held on charges of murdering a Juarez municipal police captain three days before.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death in a remote area in Chihuahua state Sunday. The victim was in his 30s and had apparently been abducted hours before. He was shot on Km 29 of the Casas Grandes highway.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death at a liquid gas distributor in Juarez Sunday. The victims had just sat down to take lunch at the Grupo Fuentes on Avenida Gomez Morin when a pair of armed suspects entered the business and shot them both more than 50 times.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Sunday. The victims were at a residence near the intersection of calles 60 and Carlos Fuero in the Cerro de la Cruz colony when they were shot.
- An unidentified man was shot to death by a Chihuahua state police agent in Chihuahua Sunday night. The victim had apparently pointed a toy pistol at the agent near the intersection of calles Bahia de Kino and Bahia de Huatulco in the Bahias colony. The unnamed agent did not realize it was a toy until the shooting was done.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death during an armed robbery in Juarez Modnay morning. The robbery was of an Oxxo convenience store near the intersection of calle Aeromoza and Planeador in southern Juarez. Reports suggest the robbery suspects were killed by armed suspects instead of by police.
- An unidentified man was killed early Monday morning in Agua Prieta, Sonora. The victim was near the intersection of calles 22 nd and 43rd in the Nuevo Progreso colony when he was killed.
- A man was shot to death in Sonoyta, Sonora Saturday night. Toribio Luna Rivera, 33, was at a residence near the intersection of calle D and 2nd ejido Hombres de Blanco colony when he was shot numerous times. Police found a .50 caliber rifle in the victim's residence and an AK-47 assault rifle.
- A Tubutama, Sonora municipal police officer and his 14 year old son were shot to death, while his wife and seven year old daughter were wounded in a shooting in Hermosillo, Sonora Sunday. Julio Adrian Paz Robles, 34, and Jorge Luis Lopez Celaya, 14, were killed as armed suspects aboard a Chevrolet Suburban fired on the family as they travelled in a Chevrolet Malibu sedan near the intersection of calles Serdan and Pino Suarez in a commercial district of the city.
Guadalupe Celaya Varela, 36, and her daughter Paulina Guadalupe Lopez Celaya, 7, were wounded in the attack.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death in Tijuana, Baja California Saturday night. The victim was found lying in a pool of blood in front of El Dorado grocery store on calle Cholultecas in the Mariano Matamoros colony. An unidentified teenager was found nearby wounded in the attack.
- Two men were found shot to death in a remote region of western Chihuahua state Saturday. Eliseo Mendez Olivas, 35, and Cruz Hernandez Hernandez, 31, were found in the village of Cieneguita de Trejo in Urique municipality. Earlier reports that a gang of 20 armed suspects had taken over Urique were discredited by public officials including Chihuahua governor Cesar Duarte.
- Five unidentified taxi drivers were shot to death in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Monday. The four men and woman were found at a mall near the corner of Avenida Estazuela and Mexican Highway 85.
- An unidentified man was found tortured to death near China, Nuevo Leon Saturday. The victim was found wrapped in a blanket about 400 meters from the main Monterrey-Renosa, Tamauliaps highway near the ejido La Morita.
- Four unidentified individuals were shot to death in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon late Friday night. The victims were seen, but their bodies had been taken away from the scene near the corner of calles 14 de Octubre and Labradores in the Fomerrey 1 colony. Los Zetas are known in northeast Mexican for removing their dead following intergang firefights.
- A female university student was shot to death in Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon Sunday night. Joselin Lineth Perez Ramirez, 18, was on foot near the intersection of calles Escobedo and Paras when she was shot. Pérez Ramirez was a student at the Universidad de Montemorelos.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death in San Nicholas de las Garza, Nuevo Leon Sunday night. The victims were sitting together on a park bench near the intersection of calles Enrique Recio and Durazno in the Los Naranjos colony when armed suspects riding in a taxi cab opened fire on them. A third individual was wounded in the attack. Several .223 and AK-47 spent shell casings were found at the scene
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