11 Die in Northern Mexico
Eleven individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico that included two unidentified men shot to death at a Juarez hamburger stand and a primary school janitor abducted at a primary school in Chihuahua, Chihuahua.
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- Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Monday afternoon, say Mexican press accounts. The shooting took place at a hamburger stand on Calle ValentÃÂn Fuentes where armed suspects dismounted from a vehicle and shot the two victims using AR-15 assault rifles.
- Three men were shot to death in two separate crimes in Juarez Monday afternoon, according the Mexican daily La Polaka. At a paint and body shop near the corner of calles Piña and Sorgo in the El Granjero district was where Hector Andres Chavez Medina, 36, and another unidentified man in his 50s were shot by armed suspects using AK-47 assault rifles. A third life was claimed at a Rapidito Bip Bip near the intersection of Paseo de la Victoria and Ejercito Nacional where armed suspects shot the unidentified victim six times using 9mm handguns.
- A man in his 30s was found shot to death in a district south of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican news accounts. Manuel Martinez Ruiz, 38, was found near Periferico Lombardo Toledano in the Aldama district naked to the waist, gagged with duct tape and tortured before being shot. Ruiz was reportedly kidnapped prior to his murder.
- Two men were found beheaded near El Saric, Sonora Monday, say Mexican news accounts. Thomas Carrizosa Estrella, 46, who was abducted in Nogales, Sonora October 10th, was found with another unidentified victim near the Ejido Arizona headless with messages warning about similar attacks on organized crime. Ejido Arizona is roughly halfway between Nogales, Sonora and El Saric, Sonora. Saric is in the same area in the Altar Desert where 400 Mexican Federal state and local police were conducting countergang operations last week.
- An unidentified couple were found shot death near Tijuana, Baja California, say Mexican press accounts. The victims, a male and a female, were shot with a .45 caliber weapon at the Ejido Francisco Villa.
- A primary school in Chihuahua, Chihuahua suspended classes after the school janitor was abducted at gunpoint, say Mexican press accounts. The kidnapping took place near the intersection of Organización and Libertadores in the Unidad district where armed suspects took the victim into a stolen Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck and then fled the area.
- An unidentified man in his 30s was found dead in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon Monday, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found in an advanced state of decomposition near the corner of Calle San Francisco and Avenida Lopez Mateos by the Parque Industrial Kalos.
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