Four Dead in Chihuahua
Four individuals were killed in ongoing drug and gang violence in northern Mexican which includes four Mexican Federal agents shot and wounded and a Monterrey city police officer shot and seriously wounded Saturday evening.
- Four Mexican Federal agents were ambushed and wounded in Juarez Saturday night, according to Mexican press reports. The assault took place in the Cordova Americas district when armed suspects blocked a road with a vehicle that appeared tp agents to be abandoned and open fired on the agents.
Agents' wounds do not appear to be life threatening but all four required hospitalization.
- An unidentified teenage girl was found shot to death south of Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday night. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Sierra San Blas and Sierra Pedernale in the Sierra Azul district. Witnesses at the scene say she was shot by armed suspects riding aboard a dark colored Nissan.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Sunday morning, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Almendro and Ãlamo, in the Jardines del Bosque district. He has been gagged with tape and handcuffed to the front gate of a residence.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death in two separate crimes, Sunday morning at about 1100 hrs. according to the Mexican daily La Polaka.
One victim was found shot twice in the head with a 9mm weapon near the intersection of calles Juan Escutia and Ejido San Agustin in the Papalote district. The second victim, in his 20s, was found near the intersection of calles Puruandiro and Jiquilpa in the Erendira district. He was also shot with a 9mm weapon.
- Sonora PolicÃÂa Estatal Investigadora (PEI) agents arrested two men they say were hitmen Sunday, according to Mexican news reports. Macario Sänchez Alapisco, 40, of Mazatlan, and Juliän Javier Ruiz Zazueta, 50, were arrested aboard a Dodge SUV in Hermosillo on Avenida Navarrete in the Las Quintas district. Police found a 9mm pistol with two unexpended rounds.
Agents say Sänchez Alapisco offered the PEI agents 200 pesos and a "good show" at his home if he was released.
Subsequently, state prosecutors ordered a raid on the home on 5th Street where police found two pistols, 5 .45 caliber rounds, two of them hollow points, and 11 9mm cartridges. Also found was nine .380 caliber bullets, an ice pick, grey tape and a black balaclava.
- A Monterrey, Nuevo Leon metropolitan police office was shot and seriously wounded in Monterrey Saturday night, according to Mexican news reports. Teodoro Cisneros Arriaga was shot on Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada in the Altavista district about 1800 hrs. Cisneros Arriaga apparently dismounted his official unit after he noticed he was being followed by armed suspects aboard another vehicle, and fired on the suspects. Cisneros Arriaga was hit in the chest and abdomen.
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