Seventeen Die in Chihuahua, Sonora, Coahuila
Seventeen people died in violence in northern Mexico including a massacre with eight dead and five decapitations.
- Eight people were shot to death and another 19 were wounded in a massacre in a Torreón, Coahuila bar, according to Mexican press reports.
Police were notified by an emergency call that a number of dead were found at the "Juanas" bar at Calzada Saltillo 400.
Reports indicate that a gray colored light truck with six suspects had stopped at the bar and was seen leaving the scene following the shootings.
Hours later a gray light truck was found in Durango with the heads of four people in its bed.
- Five people died in Juarez early Sunday morning in three different macabre crime scenes, according to Mexican news reports. Two men were found beheaded and shot to death in Juarez between Plan Guadalupe and Plutarco streets in the Los Nogales district.
According to the translation the severed heads were placed atop the
prone bodies which were also dressed in women's lingerie. Threatening messages had been marked on the corpses as well. The messages were against two municipal police officials.
In a separate crime scene a man was found shot to death in the Valle de Juarez district near Revolucion Sur and Vecente Guerrero streets. Francisco Javier Aldana Archuleta, 21 was found with 43 spent weapon casings nearby. The caliber of the weapon was not determined.
A fourth man was found shot to death in the Eco 2000 district of Juarez near the intersection of Lobo and Cebra streets.
Cãesar Valle Roacho, 26 was found shot with what investigators said was a .223 weapon. They found 27 spent cartridge casings nearby.
A fifth man was found seriously wounded by gunfire in the Waterfill district of Juarez near the intersection of Nardos and Zaragoza streets. Ricardo Acosta Garibay, 35, was transferred to a clinic where he died.
- A young man was found shot in the throat in the Parque San QuitÃÂn in Juarez early Sunday morning. He was identified as Juan Castillo EnrãÂquez, 20.
- An ex-security commander and his wife were found murdered in their home in Hermosillo, Sonora, early Saturday morning. According to Mexican press reports, the couple, Manuel Francisco Gutiérrez Cajiga, 60, and Carmen Duarte RodréÂguez, 52, were gunned down with AK-47s in the patio of their home in the Ã"navas municipality.
- A man kidnapped a few days ago in Juarez was found dead with his head severed in the Melchor Ocampo district of Chihuahua, Chihuahua. The man whose name has not yet been released, but who has been identified, was found in two different parked cars near the intersection of Montemayor and Chihuahua.
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