More Mexican Mayhem
2010-09-10
Posted by: badanov
11 Die in Northern Mexico
Eleven individuals were murdered in ongoing violence in northern Mexican states including an unidentified armed suspect shot by a civilian in Juarez, Chihuahua, and two presumed gang members shot in two separate incidents in Hermosillo, Sonora.
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- Mexican Federal agents arrested three unidentified armed suspects in a Juarez, Chihuahua shopping mall Wednesday evening, according to Mexican news reports. The arrests were made in the Rio Grande Mall near the intersection of calles Adolfo de la Huerta and Paseo Triunfo de la Republica. Reports are federal police pursued the suspects in the mall parking lot who were aboard a BMW sedan but apparently had dismounted in an attempt to elude detection on Paseo Triunfo de la República. Inside the car were found several rifles.
- Two unidentified men were found early Thursday morning an area usually used by organized crime to dump their victims, according to Mexican news reports. The find was made in a vacant lot near the intersection of Vicente Guerrero and Bermudez where the victims were found nude with plastic bags tied around their heads, and messages on their person. One message read "For selling heroin to children", while the other read "For working with the old". In a related development, a message was scrawled on a wall near a nursery near the intersection of calles Children Heroes and Panama which warned for the return of a kidnap child, or else. Reports do not say who has been kidnapped.
- An unidentified man as found tortured and killed west of Juarez Thursday morning, say Mexican news accounts. The find was made on El Camino Real and calle Feldespato at about 0800 hrs.
- A Juarez businessman was shot to death and his wife was abducted Thursday morning in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. The crime took place at a truck trailer lot near the intersection of calles Sierra Madre Oriental and Parral in the Lomas San José district where the owner, Antonio Marrufo, 45, was shot to death by armed suspects while his wife was kidnapped.
- An apparent kidnapping attempt was thwarted by an alert woman in her 60s who shot one armed suspect to death and wounded another. The abduction attempt took place at a residence on calle Ramirez Calderon, where the woman upon seeing the two suspects walk into the house, pulled a .32 revolver and fired at them repeatedly, killing one suspect and wounding the other.The surviving suspect fled the area and was later caught with a 9mm pistol by Juarez police units. The woman's husband, the presumed intended abduction victim, was hit in the shooting as well.
- A young man was shot to death at an auto parts store in Juarez Thursday morning, say Mexican news accounts. Oscar Omar Trejo Muñoz, 19, was shot in front of the Autozone parts store near the intersection of Bulevar Zaragoza and calle Valle del Cedro by the Babicora police station. The victim was shot while in his Ford Taurus.
- A mechanic was shot to death in Juarez Thursday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles José Rosas Moreno and Artemio de Valle Arizpe in the Infonavit Casas Grandes district where Jaime Paulio, 41, was shot by armed suspects who were aboard a sedan. The suspects fired on the victim at least 23 times with 9mm weapons. The victim's four year old son was accompanying him, but the child was not harmed in the shooting.
- An unidentified woman in her 30s, abducted from a truck trailer lot in Juarez earlier in the day, was found shot to death in Juarez, according to Mexican press accounts. The victim was found in the street near the intersection of calles Ramon Alcazar and Miguel Auza in the Constitucion district.
- Two dead and two wounded are the balance of a shooting and a pursuit in Hermosillo, Sonora Thursday morning, according to Mexican press reports. An unidentified victim was shot to death near the intersection of calles Gamboa and Arboleya in the Urbi Villas del Rey district in the southern sector of the city by armed suspects initially reported riding aboard a Jeep SUV. Following the shooting, responding municipal police located the suspects on bulevar De los Ganaderos near the Abelardo L. RodrÃÂguez. Rodriguez dam spillway. Joined by agents of the Sonora Policia Estatal Investigadora (PEI), a gun battle took place where one unidentified suspect was killed and the other was wounded. One of the state police agents were wounded in the battle. Armed suspects in two other Jeep SUVs were involved in the assassination, however only one, a Jeep Cherokee, was found later in the day abandoned.
- The headless body of a victim was found in an area west of Mexicali, Baja California, say Mexican news reports. The discovery was made in the Sauzal district. The victim's head was found the day before in a parcel.