21 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of 21 individuals were murdered in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican including a bar shooting last Friday which left six individuals dead.
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- A Mexican country music singer and an unidentified companion were shot and wounded in Juarez Monday. Eduardo Gameros, lead singer for the music group Caballo Dorado was leaving a Del Rio convenience store between calles Ramon Rayon and Margarito Herrera after buying a snack then he was shot. Caballos Dorado was in town for a show.
- Two unidentified men in their 20s were found shot to death in Juarez Monday. The victims were found inside a residence on calle Agua Caliente in the Pradera Dorada. They were apparently shot several days before as the odor of decomposition that filled the residence was detacted by nearby residents.
- A former Mexican politician was found shot to death and in a state of decomposition Tuesday in far southern Chihuahua. Jose Luis Prieto Torres was found near the municipality (county) of Villa López apparently tortured before he as killed, Prieto Torres was formerly a mayor of the municipality of Allende which is near Parral during the years 2004-2007. He had been abducted several days before.
- A shootout between Mexican police and armed suspects had left one unidentified man dead and four wounded in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Tuesday. The shootout took place near the Ramada Inn Encore near the intersection of Periferico Juventud and Avenida Francisco Villa. The shooting victims were aboard a Volkswagen Passat when they were stopped by police.
- An unidentified private security guard was found strangled to death at a medical clinic in Juarez early Wednesday morning. The victim was found on the third floor of the ClÃÂnica 46 del IMSS Pronaf.
- Two men were found dead in and near Juarez Wednesday, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka.
- Roberto Cardenas Gonzalez, 31, was found floating in a sewage canal in the Valle de Juarez, partially decomposed.
- An unidentified man was shot to death in the Morelos colony.
- An unidentified man was shot to death at his residence in Juarez Wednesday. The victim was fond in the garage of his home near the intersection of calles Tepalcingo and Congreso Constituyente in the Morelos III colony. Reports suggest he was shot with a handgun.
- An unidentified man was shot to death in southeast Juarez Wednesday. The victim was leaving a Del Rio convenience store near Placita Zaragoza when he was shot by armed suspects.
- A kidnap victim was found murdered Wedeneday near Hermosillo Sonora. Ramon Gabriel Rascon Ramos, 45, was kidnapped Sunday night in el rancho El Jocungo.His body was found seven kilometers away on Kilometer 44 of Highway 26. Spent shell casings for Super .38 weapons and AR-15 assault rifles were found at the scene. Rascon Ramos's pickup truck was also stolen in the same criminal act.
- An unidentified man was found immolated at a farm near Mexicali, Baja California Tuesday. The victim has been thrown into a drainage ditch in the Ejido Puebla near a flour processing plant. Witnesses reported suspects aboard a pickup truck had thrown the victim into the ditch and set him afire.
- An unidentified man was shot to death by police as he attempted to steal a car in Tijuana, Baja California Wednesday. The shooting took place as the carjacker attempted to steal a car from a female victim at a gas station near the intersection of bulevars Sanchez Taboada and Abelardo L. Rodriguez in the Zona Rio. A nearby municipal police officer intervened and shot the carjacker after he refused to surrender. The carjacker fired on the officer twice before he was shot and killed.
- Two unidentified individuals were shot to death and another was wounded in two separate shootings in Tijuana, Baja California Tuesday, according to the Mexican news website Frontera.info.
- Two women were shot in a residence on calle Mexicali Sur in the Lomas del Colorado in the Cerro Colorado delegation. The dead victim was aboard her GMC pickup truck inside the garage while the surviving victim was in the residence. A total of 14 9mm spent shell casings were found at the scene.
- An unidentified man was found handcuffed and shot to death in the Villa Charra Rincon Dorado colony.
- Six individuals were shot to death and eight others were wounded at a shooting at a bar in western Torreon, Coahuila Friday evening. The victims were at the Delicias y Ultramarino bar near the intersection of Privada 5 de Mayo And Calle Muzqui, when armed suspects aboard three vehicles dismounted their transport and fired weapons into the bar. Several AK-47 and AR-15 spent shell casings were found at the scene. The dead identified are Alejandro Ramirez Zamora, 24, Alejandro RamÃÂrez Zamora, 24 ,Juan Manuel Torres Alvarez, 40, and Chairez Hernandez Perla Selene 34.
Wounded identified were Luz Maria Leal, 45, Jesus Reyes Guerrero, 57, Javier Torres Caldera, 53, and Olivia Martha Ramirez Moreno, 61.
- A man was shot and wounded in an apparent armed mugging in Torreon, Coahuila Saturday. Juan José Ballesteros Galindo, de 20, was shot in the testicles after he resisted two armed men who demanded silver chains he was wearing. The shooting took place near the corner of Diagonal Fuentes and Calzada Saltillo 400 in Torreon, Coahuila.
- A man was stabbed to death in Torreon, Coahuila Sunday night. Daniel Barbosa Gamboa, 35 was stabbed near the intersection of calzadas Emilio Carranza and Mexico in the Aviacion colony by an unknown assailant.
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