15 Die in Northern Mexico
Fifteen individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico including an armed suspect shot to death trying to shoot a Juarez municipal police officer.
- An unidentified man was found dead in Juarez Wednesday night. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Mar del Sur and Mar de la Plata in the Parajes del Sur colony. He was bound hand and foot, and had been tortured. Several 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.
- An unidentified armed suspect was shot to death in Juarez Thursday morning. The suspect was shot by an unidentified Juarez municipal police officer in front of his home. The suspect had intended to shoot the officer. The shooting took place near the corner of calles Cirios and Valle Dorado in the Valle Dorado colony, which is just around the corner of the Babicora police station.
- An unidentified man was murdered and dumped in Juarez Thursday evening. The victim was gagged and bound with his hands behind his back, and dumped from a car near the corner of calles Holanda and Lisboa in the San Antonio cplony. The victim had been tortured.
- Three unidentified individuals were shot to death in two separate shootings in Juarez Thursday night, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
- Two men were shot to death as they were riding aboard a Chevrolet Lumina on Calle La Placita Zaragoza.
- A boy riding a bicycle in the Comina de Juarez colony was pursued, and then shot as he attempted to seek refuge in the kitchen of a residence.
- An unidentified police officer was beheaded, his head found Thursday night and his torso Friday morning in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. The head was left in a cooler in the northern zone of the city at the Pistolas Meneses sporting goods store, while the torso was found about 29 kilometers from Chihuahua city on the Chihuahua-Juarez highway. The head was found in a cooler with a "narcomessage" threatening the new Policia Unica police force.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death and three others were wounded in a shooting at a residence in Juarez Tuesday night. The victims were shot by armed suspects riding in a convoy near the intersection of calles San Francisco and Acapulco.
- Two unidentified individuals were found in an unmarked grave in Nogales, Sonora Friday afternoon. The grave was 200 meters from the periferico Luis Donaldo Colosio.
- Two bodies of individuals reports say are Sonora state police agents were found buried in the garageof a residence in Hermosillo, Sonora Thursday. The agents has been abducted and were found incident to a police sweep in the Pimentel colony in Hermosillo. Reports say a number of Sonora state police agents and Hermosillo municipal police officers have already been implicated in crimes relating to the murder of the two found today.
- Two unidentified individuals were shot to death and three others were wounded in a shooting in Nogales, Sonora early Friday morning. The shooting took place at about 0520 hrs on calle Marathon in the Kennedy colony. Three other individuals were arrested following the police response. Inside the residence were found an AK-47 assault rifle, one 9mm pistol and four weapons magazines.
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