16 Die in Northern Mexico
Sixteen individuals were murdered in northern Mexican states in drug and gang related violence which included two men shot to death in Mexicali, Baja California in front of a kindergarten Monday night.
For a map, click here
- Two men were shot to death in two different crimes in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Monday, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. In the first crime the owner of a liquor store near the intersection of Venceremos and Nogales in the Nuevo Triunfo district was shot. Two hours later a man was found dead in a drainage ditch near the intersection of Vialidad Sacramento and Avenida Dostoievsky.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death and a third was wounded in Juarez Monday night, say Mexican news accounts. The attack took place as the three were changing a tire on a vehicle near the intersection of calles Yepomera and Hacienda La Esperanza in the Hacienda de las Torres district where armed suspects shot the trio using AK-47 assault rifles. A message was left saying the three were involved in recruiting children for organized crime.
- A Pizza Hut restaurant was attacked with a firebomb late Monday night, according to Mexican press accounts. The Pizza Hut on Avenida Jilotepec was attacked when armed suspects threw at least two Molotov cocktails into the store at about 2200 hrs. Reports also say an unidentified person was abducted.
- An unidentified man was immolated and another was shot to death in Juarez late Monday night according to press accounts appearing in La Polaka. In the first crime, a man was covered in gasoline and set afire near the intersection of calles Gradma and José MarÃÂa Heredia in the México 68 district. A message was left in cardboard saying the victim was a "rat". Mexico 68 is one of the most dangerous gang areas in Juarez. The second crime took place when a man was shot to death in his residence near the intersection of calles Parral and Yepomera on the KM 5 district.
- An unidentified man was found tortured and shot to death in front of a technical high school in Juarez Tuesday morning, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was found by students across the street from the CECATI school near the intersection of calles Telegrafistas and Electricistas in the Fidel Velazquez district. The victim has been tortured and shot three times.
- A mother and her adult son were shot to death in their home in Juarez Tuesday morning, say Mexican news accounts. Ester Camarilla, 53 and Omar Camarillo, 23, were both shot by several armed suspects who arrived via a convoy near the intersection of calles Anenoma and Piña in the Infonavit Angel Trias district. Another unidentified woman in the residence was abducted.
- An unidentified man was found murdered in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican enws accounts. The victim was found in a vacant lot near the intersection of avenidas Juan Pablo II and Fuerza Aérea Mexicana with bullet wounds to the head and fingers chopped off, presumably with a machete. A message was left saying the victim was killed because he was a government informant.
- An unidentified man was found dead in a clandestine grave in Juarez, according to Mexican news sources. The discovery was made at a residence near the intersection of calles Violeta and Bario in the Zacatecas district where the skeleton of a man was found gagged with tape.
- Two men were found shot to death in Mexicali, Baja California, say Mexican news accounts. Julio Cesar Rosa Medina and Miguel Olguin Hernandez were found on Avenida Hermenegildo Galeana and Calle RÃÂo Loreto in the Miraflores district where the two were aboard a Kia van with California plates near the Vistahermosa Kindergarten were shot by armed suspects riding in a Volkswagen Jetta. Several spent shell casings were found at the scene.
- Three more individuals were found in a grave previously discovered in late August in Tijuana, Baja California, say Mexican news reports. The grave was discovered in the Tres October district where two male victims were found. Authorities returned to the residence with a backhoe where the grave was first discovered and found three more victims, two men and a woman. The new discovery was made because of the arrest of Higinio Melero López, 34, who told authorities a problem with a drug sale was the motive for the murders.
|
