25 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of 25 individuals were murdered in ongoing violence in northern Mexico including a Juarez female traffic cop executed Wednesday and the remains of between six and eight individuals found in a remote farming town in Coahuila.
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- An unidentified woman was found shot to death in Juarez Thursday morning, say Mexican news accounts. The victim is thought to be a kidnapping victim abducted Tuesday from the Infonavit Angel Trias district. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Chihuahua and Tercera in the Ampliacion Aeropuerto district shot in the head.
- Three unidentified men were shot to death in three separate crimes in Juarez Wednesday, say the Mexican news daily La Polaka. The crime took place near the intersection of calles Puerto Iza and Pradera in the Praderas del Sauzal district where a man as found shot to death and dumped at the scene. Another man was shot near the intersection of calles Pradera del Pino and Pradera del Ciprasin the Pradera de los Lamosuse district where he was watering a tree before he was attacked. He attempted to escape the attack by ducking into a house but failed to reach safety in time. In the third crime a man was shot to death near the intersection of calles Mateos Torres and Rigoberta Menchu in the Ermila district. Reports say the victim may have been a CIPOL agent. CIPOL is similar to a police detective.
- A Juarez female motorcycle traffic police officer was murdered at a traffic stop Thursday morning. The officer, Roxana Rodriguez, had stopped a Nissan sedan when armed suspects riding in a truck attacked her with assault rifles. Reports say one of the gunmen exited the vehicle to put two more rounds into the officer before fleeing the scene. The passengers of the Nissan sedan were also wounded in the attack.
- A man was assassinated near a paint store in Hermosillo,Sonora Wednesday afternoon, according to Mexican press accounts. Reynaldo AmÃÂn Caro Elenes, 27, was shot by armed suspects riding aboard a Chevrolet Tahoe with AR-15 assault rifles and 9mm weapons near the intersection of bulevars Solidaridad and Mendoza in the Mirasoles district. Another unidentified young man was wounded in the assault.
- Two unidentified individuals were shot to death in two separate crimes in Juarez Thursday, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. Near then intersection of avenidas Tecnológico and Rivera at the Smart Shopping Center an individuals was shot numerous times after he refused to exist from his Honda sedan. Several AK-47 spent shell casings were found at the scene. At the Palacio de Mitla shopping center an individual was shot in his Saturn sedan.
- Four unidentified employees of an auto parts store were shot down in Sauzal, Chihuahua, south of Juarez, say Mexican news accounts. The victims were aboard a GMC Sonoma pulling an empty trailer near the intersection of Lazaro Cardenas and Carretera Juarez-Porvenir when several armed suspects fired on the group killing all four. The victim were employees of a Yonke's nearby.
- Three individuals were shot to death in two separate crimes in Juarez Thursday night, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first murder took place near the intersection of calles Quetzalcoatl and Mitla in the Real district where Edel Meraz and Ignacio Solano were caught by gun fire. An unidentified 17 year old girl was shot to death near the intersection of calles Uramex and Valle de las Peñas in the Fidel Velazquez district. Ten 9mm spent casings were found at the scene.
- The severed head of an unidentified man was found atop a Cadillac in Juarez late Thursday night, according to Mexican news accounts. The discovery was made by a female couple walking by near the intersection of calles Parral and Centeno in the Colinas de Juarez district.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death in two separate crimes in Juarez Friday morning, according to Mexican news accounts. In the first crime a man was shot in his car near the intersection of calles Oscar Flores and Cerro de la Plata. In the second crime a man was shot near a food warehouse near the intersection of calles Chapultepec and Agustin Melgar.
- A gang brawl in Saltillo, Coahuila has left two hurt and one arrested, say Mexican news accounts. The fight took place inside a residence in the Nueva Jerusalen district where several gang members began verbal insults which led to the brawl. One gang member was arrested while the rest of his crew fled the scene.
- Between six and eight individuals were found dead inside a waterwheel well in San Pedro de las Colonias, Coahuila, according to Mexican news accounts. The discovery was made near the location where 14 individuals were freed by a detachment of the Mexican Army Tuesday. Reports say the victims were are all probably drug and gang related. San Pedro de las Colonias is only a few kilometers northeast of Torreon, Coahuila.
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