16 Die in Chihuahua
A total of 16 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence which included a Juarez traffic cop shot to death Monday and a family of four murdered in their home Wednesday morning.
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- An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Monday night, according to Mexican press reports. The victim was found at the Templo Sangre de Cristo church near the intersection of calles Ocotillo and Dalias Francisco Villa. He was put up against the wall of the prayer hall and shot several times in the head.
- One traffic cop was shot to death and another was wounded in an attack in Juarez Monday say Mexican press reports. The attack took place on Bulevar Cuatro Siglos near Calle Arizona where armed suspects attacked the officers while they were on patrol aboard their motorcycles. Reports say AK-47s were used in the attack.
- A man and a woman at a bar were shot to death late Tuesday night in an area in south Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican news reports. The attack took place at Tavo's Bar near the intersection of Avenida Lombardo Toledano and Calle 7th in the Aeropuerto district. Reports say armed suspects went into the bar demanding to be sold drugs, and when they were rebuffed by the pair, the pair, Edgar Manuel Gaytan, 40, and Ana Flores Cruz, 23, were shot to death.
- A family of four individuals were shot to death in Juarez early Wednesday morning, say Mexican news sources. The attack took place at the residence near the intersection of Francisco Galarza and Basset in Lucio Blanco district where armed suspects burst into the home and shot the family living there. The victims were a married couple and their two teenaged girls, one of whom was planning her quinceañera.
- An unidentified man was shot to death in his residence Monday, but the alerting phone calls for police were not answered until early Wednesday morning, say Mexican news reports. The attack took place at a residence near the intersection of calles Felipe Angeles and Lenin in the México 68 district where armed suspects shot the victim in the head and chest.
- An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Wednesday afternoon, say Mexican news reports. The victim was shot near the intersection of calles Niquel and Segunda de Ugarte in the Arroyo Colorado district.
- Mexican press is reporting a significant increase in "narcobanners" in and around the Chihuahua cities of Chihuahua and Juarez claiming state government complicity with the Juarez drug gang and its enforcement wing La Linea in a number of murders. The banner specifically accused outgoing Chihuahua governor Reyes Baeza and Procuradora del Estado Patricia Gonzalez. The banners are signed the Sinaloa Cartel. The latest banner was hung at around 0600 hrs in Juarez at the Tec pedestrian bridge.
- Three women were shot to death in a residence in Juarez Tuesday, according to Mexican press reports. The attack took place near the intersection of calle Fresa and Mamey in the El Granjero district where armed suspects broke into a home and shot the three victims, a mother and her two daughters. A baby survived the attack.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Tuesday morning, according to Mexican news reports. The attack took place when armed suspects riding aboard a sedan shot the victims riding aboard a Honda sedan near the intersection of calles José Reyes Estrada and Jaime Bermudez in the Los Alcaldes district.
- A young man was found beaten and stabbed to death on a remote highway near Parral, Chihuahua Tuesday, say Mexican press accounts. The victim was found on the Parral-Los Charcos highway with numerous wounds.
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