23 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of 23 individuals were killed in northern Mexico in drug and gang related violence including a police academy assistent director killed in Gomez Palacio, Durango, and a Juarez, Chihuahua, police station commander shto to death Tuesday.
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- Two unidentified individuals were shot to death Tuesday evening in Juarez, say Mexican news reports. The victims, two men, were travelling aboard a Honda Accord with a pregnant female when they were attacked on calle Paseo del Noga in the Circuito Olivo district. Reports say 17 spent shell casings were found at the scene.
- A Juarez police commander was shot to death Tuesday night, according to Mexican news reports. Fernando Larios, commander of the Delicias police station, was shot as he drove his Oldsmobile sedan near the intersection of calles José Revueltas and Maria Antonieta. Reports say the victim was shot at more than 100 times by several armed suspects.
- Six individuals were murdered in four separate crimes in Juarez Tuesday night, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first crime took place on the Juárez-Porvenir road where the driver of an Oldsmobile Envoy was shot to death more than 100 times in the Guadalupe district. In the second murder took place when armed suspects shot to death an adult male and wounded a teenaged male while they were riding in a Volkswagen Jetta near the intersection of calle Aeronautica and Miguel de la Madrid near a snack foods warehouse. In the third crime, an unidentified man was shot to death in his pickup truck near the intersection of calles Ecuador and Ignacio Mejia as he was leaving his residence. In the fourth crime, two men riding in a Ford Focus were shot to death near the intersection of calles Rio de la Plata and Lopez Mateos Uno.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Tuesday night, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Gomez Veleta and Juan Herrera in the Partido Doblado district tortured, gagged with duct tape and shot several times. Reports say the victim was dumped at the location.
- A father and his adult daughter were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Wednesday, according to Mexican news accounts. Ramona Ãlvarez, 25, and Jesus de Nazareno Alvarez, 45 were shot at their residence near the intersection of calles 106th and 24th de Julio in the Martin Lopez district where armed suspects broke into the home and executed the pair, then fled aboard several darkened vehicles. The unidentified wife and mother of the two murdered today was executed near the intersection of calles 108the and Prieto Lujan last August 9th while travelling aboard a vehicle.
- Four unidentified men were shot to death in two separate crimes in Juarez as newly inaugurated Chihuahua governor Cesar Duarte was making rounds visiting various parts of the city Wednesday, say the Mexican news daily La Polaka. Inn the first crime, an adult and two teenagers were shot inside a residence near the intersection of calles Puerto Velis and Puerto de Palos in the Tierra Nueva district by unidentified armed suspects. In the second crime a man was shot in front of a residence by armed suspects with AK-47 assault rifles near the intersection of calles José de Rivera and Lucero in the Parajes del Sol district. Reports say the suspects knocked on the door, and then shot the victim as he appeared.
- An unidentified young man was found shot to death near a mine near Hermosillo, Sonora Tuesday, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found wrapped in a plaid blanket near the intersection of Carretera Internacional and Bulevar Solidaridad, corresponding to the 5.5 Kilometer maker on the road to the NYCO mine. The victim had a single gunshot wound to the head.
- Two brothers were shot to death in Gomez Palacio, Durango Tuesday, according to Mexican news reports. Ruben, 24, and Ricardo Ochoa Balbanedas 20, were shot while they were travelling aboard a taxi between calles Morelos and Escocia in the Nueva los Ãlamos district. Reports say two spent shell casings for an AR-15 assault rifle were found at the scene.
- The deputy director of the police academy in Lerdo, Durango, was found shot to death Tuesday, say Mexican news accounts. Olegario Antonio Sanchez Perez was found along the Santa Rosa Tlahualilo canal road in the San Juan district aboard his personal Ford Ranger pickup truck. Spent shell casings for AK-47 assault rifles and .45 caliber weapons were found at the scene.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death on a farm near Torreon, Coahuila, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found with several wounds from gunshots in Ejido San Luis, and had a miltary style haircut and numerous tattoos.
- Two inmates at a prison in Durango, Durango, were killed in a brawl Tuesday morning, say Mexican press accounts. Eusebio Perez Frayre, 42 , and Juan Astorga Nuñez, 23, were killed when several inmates started fighting at the Centro de Reinsercion Social No. 1 (CERESO). Two sharp weapons were found at the scene of the brawl.
From the Where's-the-Match Department
Mexican federal agents rode to the rescue of a thief neighbors of a Juarez district were about to immolate, according to Mexican news accounts.
Antonio Giner de 26, was forcibly seized by several residents of the Villas de Santiago district, bound and beaten and kicked, and then taken to a children's playground where he was tied to a post with a noose.
Residents doused Giner in gasoline and were about the ignite the fuel when Mexican federal agents arrived on the scene and took the victim into custody.
No arrests were made, and apparently neighbors warned agents that a similar fate will befall other thieves in their neighborhood.
This near lynching is the third such event in the last three weeks. In the other two lynchings, citizens killed three. |
