14 Die in Northern Mexico
Fourteen individuals were killed in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican including a total of four Juarez police officers killed in three separate crimes.
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- An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez, Chihuahua Tuesday, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was found lying face down with two gunshot wounds near the intersection of calles Gabriel Leyva and Mauricio Corredor in the Chihuahua district.
- Three unidentified young men were found shot to death in Juarez Wednesday morning, according to Mexican news sources. The victims were found on calle Ramon Aranda near the Palacio Municipal in the Valles de Juarez district tortured and shot to death. Reports say the three were previously kidnapped.
- A Juarez municipal police commander was shot to death Wednesday as he was refueling his personal vehicle, according to Mexican press reports. Francisco Javier Flores Solis de 40, was fueling his Ford Windstar van at a PEMEX gas station near the intersection of calles Sevilla and Turkia in the San Antonio district by a lone armed suspect. Javier had two years with Juarez police and served as a shift manager.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death near northern Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican news reports. The victim was found face down, bound by his hands and gagged on Kilometer 17 of the Chihuahua-Juarez main highway. The victim had been beaten.
- Three Juarez municipal police officers were murdered in two separate crimes early Thursday morning, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. In the first crime, Rene Pelayo, assigned to the Estacion Delicias, was found aboard a vehicle shot to death near the intersection of calles Cuatro Siglos and Arizona, shot by an armed suspect. Two Juarez police were found shot to death inside a minivan near the intersection of calles Las Torres and Libramiento in front of a Smart store.
- Two unidentified brothers were shot to death in an intergang shooting in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. An unidentified member of a rival gang, Los Diablos, shot the two victims in the Mexico 68 district as part of an ongoing gang dispute. The arrestee was suspected in a previous shooting last month inn the same district in which a residence was shot up. The two victims leave nine children behind.
- Three unidentified individuals were murdered in two separate crimes, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. Raul Rentaria was shot to death by a group of armed suspects near the intersection of calles Ojinaga and Santa Barbara in the Nuevo Hipodromo district. In the second murder, two employees of a tire shop near the intersection of Juárez Porvenir highway and Libramiento Independencia were shot to death by a group of armed suspects with AK-47 assault rifles.
- A farmer was shot and wounded in a carjacking in Torreon, Coahuila, according to Mexican news reports. Francisco Garcia Garcia refused to give up his Ford Lobo at gunpoint and was shot in the leg by an armed suspect near the intersection of Periferico Raul Lopez Sanchez and Calle La Unión. The suspect was last seen heading towards Gomez Palacio, Durango in the stolen pickup truck.
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