22 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of 22 individuals were murdered in northern Mexican drug and gang related violence that included a shooting at a restaurant in Juarez Wednesday night, according to Mexican press accounts.
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- Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Tuesday. The victims were repairing a Ford pickup truck near the intersection of calles Gilberto Cortez and Elisa Griensen in the Revolucion Mexicana colony when armed suspects drove by and shot them.
- An unidentified woman was found shot to death inside an SUV in Juarez Wednesday night. The victim had been bound gagged and tortured before she was shot. She was found inside a Ford Explorer SUV near the corner of calles Presa Malpaso and Presa Amistad in the Independencia I colony.
- Two unidentified individuals were found shot to death in Juarez in two separate crimes Thursday.
- A man in his 20s was found shot to death near the junction of calles Sanchez and Ponce de Leon in the Barrio La Chaveña. The victim had been blindfolded and his hands and feet bound by duct tape before he was shot.
- An unidentified man was found dead in a vacant lot on Libramiento Aeropuerto in the Las Palmas colony. The victim's body was too badly decomposed to determine how he died at the scene.
- Armed suspects shot up a restaurant in Juarez Wednesday night. No one was reported hurt in the attack on La Cabaña restaurant near the intersection of Santiago Blancas and Dia del Maestro. The restaurant was closely immediately following the attack.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Wednesday night. The victims were aboard a Ford Explorer near the intersection of calle Lirios and Arroyo de las VÃÂboras when armed suspects aboard a Jeep Cherokee fired assault rifles at them.
- Two unidentified individuals were found shot to death early Thursday morning in Juarez.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death near the corner of calles Ramon Corona and Tlaxcala in the Cuauhtemoc colony.
- A woman was raped and murdered in Juarez early Thursday morning. Police responding to the scene at the junction of calles Pacheco Parra and Toronja in the Solidaridad colony foound Karina Cortez Ochoa, 22, dead. A 19 months old female child was also at the residence alive. Ochoa's attacker was found later that night.
- A woman and an unidentified man were shot to death in the village of Guadalupe Distrito Bravos in Juarez Thursday. Emma Luisa Avila Garcia, 45, and an unidentified man were shot by several armed suspects near the corner of calles Guadalupe Victoria and José Maria Morelos. Reports say the same suspects set four nearby residences afire on Avenida Juarez, destroying them.
- An unidentified man was shot to death near Juarez Thursday. The victim was driving his family in his Dodge Neon when armed suspects fired on the vehicle near the intersection of carretera Juarez-Porvenir and Ramon Rayon killing the driver. The victim's wife and child were unharmed in the shooting.
- An unidentified man was shot to death in Agua Prieta, Sonora Wednesday. The victim was found aboard his Ford Lobo pickup truck near the corner of Calle 18 Avenida 25 in the Nuevo Vallarta colony.
- No one was reported hurt in an armed robbery of a gas firm in Nogales, Sonora Wednesday. Two men, their faces covered in red scarves got away with USD $750 and employee's personal belongings. The business was located on Avenida De los Maestros in the Las Praderas colony.
- Two men were found dead in Tijuana, Baja California Wednesday. The victims were found in the trunk of a car near the General Hospital
- An unidentified man was shot to death and his wife was wounded late Wednesday night near Tijuana, Baja California. The victims were attacked in their car near the corner of calle Acueducto and carretera Tijuana-Tecate in the Granjas Familiares colony. Reports say the victims knew their shooters.
- One man was shot to death and two others were wounded in a shooting in Tijuana, Baja California. The shooting took place on bulevar Cucapah near a shopping center where armed suspects aboard a sedan shot the trio at close range.
- An unidentified man was found dead inside his residence in Tijuana, Baja California. The victim had been tortured before he was strangled at his residence in the Santa Fe colony.
- Three individuals were murdered in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Wednesday.
- Two men aboard a luxury SUV were found executed in Santiago colony near a comunity called La Gitana. Witnesses say armed suspects aboard a Jeep Cherokee shot and killed Alejandro Guzman Garza, 35, and a second unidentified victim on kilometer 11 of San Mateo road.
- An unidentified man was found dead in the parking lot of a professional building in Monterrey. The victim had been wrapped in a blanket near the intersection of avenidas Morones Prieto and Dinamarca in the Del Carmen colony.
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An armed robbery was thwarted in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, when a scuffle broke out between the armed suspect and store employees, according to Mexican press accounts. The victim walked into the Venus sex shop on Avenida Madero in the Monterrey suburb of San Nicholas de la Garza Wednesday armed with a knife and demanded the store receipts. A fight broke out, and the victim was stabbed to death by one of the employees. |
