15 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of 15 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence including a Chihuahua state police agents sho to death Wednesday.
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- An unidentified man as shot to death Wednesday. The victim was the owner of a torilleria in front of the Templo San Judas in San Lorenzo colony. Armed suspects aboard a white ford Explorer stopped by the tortilleria and shot the victim.
- Two teenage females and a an unidentified woman were shot to death in Juarez Wednesday night in two separate incidents, according to the Mexican news daily la Polaka.
- Two female teenagers were shot to death and another was wounded in a shooting in Juarez. The trio were on calle Pavorreal in the Granjas de Chapultepec colony when they were attacked. Esmeralda Lozoya,12, and Carmen Barraza, 14, died shortly after they arrived to receive medical attention.
- An unidentified woman was shot to death on calle Inocente Ochoa in the Cuauhtemoc colony.
- Two unidentified men were found shot to death early Thursday mroning in Juarez. The victims were found in a vacant lot near the intersection of calles Municipio Libre and Panamá in the Melchor Ocampo colony. Their hands and feet were bound using duct take and they were gagged with duct tape as well.
- One unidentified Chihuahua state police agent was shot to death and a teenager in his company was wounded in Juarez Thursday. Armed suspects aboard a vehicle shot at the police agent and his companion aboard a Nissan Maxima following a brief pursuit. The suspects presumably used assault rifles. The shooting ended at Avenida Zaragoza.
- Three unidentified armed suspects were shot to death and two bystanders were wounded in an ambush in Juarez Thursday afternoon. The shooting took place near the corner of calles Valle de Sol and Valle de las Peñas in the San Lorenzo Infovanit colony where armed suspects attacked the victims a Chevrolet Venture minivan. Reports say more than 80 AK-47 assault rifle rounds were fired into the van. Stray gunfire wounded two teenaged girls in a residence.
- Two unidentified men and one teenagers were murdered in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora Wednesday. Reports say while state police agents were conducting an eviction from a mine in Alamos, the victims were shot in two separate shootings. Edwin Guillermo, 16, was shot with an AR-15 assault rifle as he was riding his motorcycle in the La Palmas colony, while Daniel Roberto Valenzuela Ramirez, 24, Andres Enrique Osuna Barron, 19, were both shot aboard a Toyota sedan in the Sostenes Valenzuela colony. Small amounts of drugs including marijuana, cocaine and methamphetimine were found in the car.
- Two university students were shot to death in Rosario, Baja California Wednesday. Jesus Franco Orlando 25 years and Maria Guadalupe Lopez, 21, were aboard a Ford Focus sedan when they were fied on by armed suspects. The shooting took place on calle Emiliano Zapata in the Leyes de Reforma colony.
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