Nine Die in northern Mexican Drug and Gang Violence
Nine people died in organized crime violence that included two Juarez CIPOL agents shot to death and two drug dealers shot to death in Sonora.
- Two Juarez CIPOL agents were shot to death Wednesday morning in Juarez, according to Mexican press reports. The two agents were later identified as Javier Villalobos and Fabiola Sosa Galindo, both 23.
CIPOL is a Mexican acronym for the city detective bureau.
The agents were killed as they sat in their official vehicles near the corner of Mirador and Ortiz Mena streets, next to a movie theater at a commercial establishment called Soriana Mirador. Witnesses at the scene say they were shot by armed suspects aboard a late model Volkswagen Golf.
- Another unidentified street car cleaner, known in Mexican as "franelero", was found murdered in a vacant in in the Arroyos district of northern Juarez, according to Mexican news reports. The execution represents the third time in a week a franelero was killed. As with the other two reported yesterday, the victim was shot in the head and the body dumped.
- An unidentified Juarez transit police officer was shot to death late Tuesday night, according to Mexican press accounts. Saul Gerardo Barrón was found a few meters from his patrol car on Yepómera street near Libramiento Aeropuerto. Investigators speculate that Barrón attempted to flee an attack before being gunned down.
- An unidentified man in his 20s was found shot to death near a farm south of Chihuahuhua, late Tuesdayn night, accotriding to Mexicn newspaper reports. Investigators said the victim, found neear the la Esperanza farm sported a military style haircut and a single gunshout wound to the head.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death Wednesday afternoon near the same location a Juarez police officer was murdered attempting to stop a bank robbery, Mexican news accounts say. Witnesses at the scene reported that two men were shot as soon as they emerged from their vehicle at the Plaza Las Torres shopping center near De las Torres and Palacio de Mitla avenues. About a dozen shots were fired in total.
- An woman was critically wounded Wednesday afternoon in Juarez when attackers shot her in her luxury SUV, say Mexican newspaper reports. MarÃÂa Elizabet RodrÃÂguez Chaparro, 25, was shot in her Lincoln Navigator near the intersection of Avenida Tecnológico and Barranco Azul street near the airport.
- Two men were discovered dead aboard an SUV after local police in Hermosillo, Sonora, stopped the vehicle, according to Mexican news reports. Also on board was a four year old girl and 68 kilograms of marijuana.
Jorge Luis Ceniceros Avilés, 42, and Nilza Yadira Arvayo, 23, died from multiple gunshot wounds they received when they were attacked in Sonora.
The unidentified driver of the SUV claimed he was forced to drive to Yécora to get a shipment of marijuana and then forced to drive to Nogales. Along with way they were attacked with men with rifles.
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