10 Die in Northern Mexico
Ten individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang violence in northern Mexico which include a former Juarez police commander shot to death while refueling his Jeep Cherokee, and a Agua Prieta police commander murdered at a traffic accident.
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- Two youths were shot to death and another two were wounded in a shooting in Juarez Tuesday, say Mexican news accounts. The shooting took place o between calles Hermanos Escobar and Plutarco Elias in the Fovisste Chamizal district where several armed suspects fired on a group of young men, one of whom was a student from Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ).
- A former Juarez municipal police officer and an unidentified female companion were shot to death in Juarez Wednesday, according to Mexican press accounts. The shooting took place at a fueling station near the intersection of avenidas Oscar Flores and Rivera Lara where armed suspects fired on the couple killing them instantly. Fernando Gabriel Escobedo Anaya was discharged from the Juarez municipal police in 2004 and had worked from the Delicias station.
- A woman was shot to death and her six year old daughter was wounded in an armed assault in Juarez Thursday, say Mexican press accounts. Eva Ordaz de Leon, 42, was shot aboard her Chevrolet Tahoe at the Plaza La Manzana on calle Hiedra in front of the Gonzalez supermarket. Her unidentified daughter was wounded but is expected to survive her wounds.
- An unidentified woman was found shot to death Thursday morning in Juarez, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was bound hands and feet with a plastic bag over hear head near the corner of calles Cañaveral and Gamiz in the 15 de Enero district.
- A police commander was shot to death early Tuesday morning in Agua Prieta, Sonora, say Mexican news accounts. José Martin Lopez Contreras, 39, was shot by armed suspects near the intersection of Calle 35th and Avenida Primera Industrial in the Ladrillera II district after he spoke with unidentified men following a traffic accident with a pickup truck. Several spent shell casings for an AK-47 assault rifle was found at the scene.
- An unidentified individual was found dead inside a van in Juarez, Nuevo Leon Wednesday night, according to Mexican press accounts. The discovery was made near the corner of calles Circuito Hacienda and Circuito Virginia in the Hacienda El Rosario district.
- An unidentified man was found dead in an advanced state of decomposition in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, say Mexican news accounts. The discovery was made on the riverbed of the Santa Catarina River in the Pio X district.
- A man was shot to death in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon Wednesday night, say Mexican press accounts. Julio Cesar Hernandez Quezada, 47, was shot to death following a pursuit near the corner of Privada Belgrado and Calle Uruapan. Reports say Hernandez Quezada abandoned his Volkswagen Beetle and attempted to seek refuge inside a residence before he was stuck and killed by his assailants.
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