22 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of 22 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico including a Baja California state police agent shot to death Friday.
- Three unidentified youths were shot and wounded in an attack in Juarez late Friday night. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Ignacio Alatorre and Articulo 27 in the Obrera colony.
- Three unidentified men were shot to death and dumped in Juarez early Saturday morning. The victims were found near the intersection of calles Senderos de Aldama and Matachi in the Senderos del Sol colony. Another individual, a fourth shooting victim, was found alive.
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- An unidentified man in his 20s was run over by a vehicle in Juarez Saturday morning. The victim was hit near the intersection of calles Potro and Arroyo del Mimbre in the Felipe Angeles colony. Reports say the victim was a scrap iron collector by trade.
- An unidentified crossdressing male and his companion were shot to death in Juarez Saturday morning. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Juarez and Decima in downtown Juarez.
- A 39 year old man was shot to death in Parral, Chihuahua Friday afternoon. Juan Garcia Estrada, director of the Parral Centro Integral de Rehabilitación (CIREC), was shot at the center on avenida Centauro del Norte by armed suspects using AK-47 assault rifles, who had arrived aboard a Dodge Ram pickup truck. Reports say illegal weapons were found stored at the center.
- Three unidentified individuals were shot to death in a home invasion in Nogales, Sonora Friday afternoon. Reports say an unidentified female knocked on the door of the residence in Conjunto JardÃÂn colony, and then shot a man who answered. Police found two other victims inside, both were bound and gagged before they were shot. Reports say unofficially a .45 automatic pistol was used in the murders.
- Six unidentified individuals were found murdered in a town in far southern Sonora. The victims had been dumped into a dry well in the town of Rosario Tesopaco, which is about seven kilometers east of Esperanza, Sonora. The bodies had been dead for several weeks, and were in an advanced state of decomposition.
- Four unidentified individuals were found in a grave in Puerto Penasco, Sonora Saturday. The bodies were found near a farm.
- An unidentified individual was found dead inside a well in Cajeme, Sonora. Cajeme is about 20 kilometers from the western coast of Sonora, and about 60 kilometers southwest of Hermosillo, Sonora.
- One Baja California state police agent was shot to death and another was wounded in an ambush in Tijuana, Baja California. The attack took place at Mi Plaza on bulevar Ruta Mariano Matamoros in the Aguila colony in the La Presa delegation where armed suspects fired on the police agents who were riding in a Chyrsler Sebring. The shooters were aboard two vehicles, both of which were recovered later along with the arrest of five individuals. Ernesto Tamayo Lopez, the deceased, was assigned to auto theft with the Baja California Justice ministry.
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