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More Mexican Mayhem
2010-09-26
Posted by: badanov

24 Die in Northern Mexico

A total of 24 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence which included a young father and his six year old daughter and two police officers shot to death in Sonora.

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• An unidentified burglar was shot to death at a residence in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday night, according to Mexican news accounts. A burglar broke into a home late at night and attempted to rape a young girl sleeping inside. When the suspect was discovered, the brother of the girl's mother attempted to intervene, the burglar knived the man and left him wounded on the ground. An alert neighbor outside shot the burglar as he attempted to flee the residence near the intersection of calles 17 de Junio and Belisario Domínguez in the Villa district. The suspect died a short distance away
• Three individuals were found hanged and crucified on a barbed wire fence along a remote highway near Chihuahua, Chihuahua, say Mexican news sources. The victims, two men and a woman, were found on Kilometer 77 of the Chihuahua-Cuauhtemoc highway. Several .40 caliber and 9mm spent casings were found at the scene.
• An unidentified man was ambushed on a highway near Juarez Friday, say Mexican press accounts. The victim was driving his Toyota Tacoma on the Juarez-Porvenir highway near Bulevar Independencia when he was ambushed. The victim crashed his vehicle into a ditch after he was shot.
• A newly elected Chihuahua mayor was shot and wounded in Chihuahua, say Mexican news reports. Gran Morelos mayor-elect, Ricardo Solis Manriquez, was shot on Kilomter 9.5 of the Chihuahua-Cuauhtemoc highway Friday when armed suspects riding aboard a Jeep Cherokee attacked Manriquez as he stepped into a parked vehicle.
• An unidentified skeleton was found in a sewer in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday, according to Mexican news sources. The victim was found by city workers doing maintenance near the intersection of calles Vista La Sierra and Vista San Jorge in the Vista Ojito district.
• Six unidentified men were found tortured and shot to death near Jimenez, Chihuahua, according to Mexican press accounts. The victims were found stuffed into a GMC van within three kilometers of the junction to Villa Lopez.
• A dismembered man was found in Juarez Friday, say Mexican press accounts. The victim was found near the intersection of Avenida Manuel J. Clouthier and the bridge on Avenida Las Torres covered with a blanket with a message.
• A young man and his six year old daughter were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua early Saturday morning, according to Mexican poress sources. Reprts say a lone armed suspect entered the home and murdered the two and wounded a third unidentified man at a residence near the intersection of Rivera del Chuviscar and Rivera Ojinaga.
• A mechanic was shot to death at his job in Juarez Saturday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. The murder took place at Paez Used Auto Parts near the intersection of calles Panamericana and Aeronautica. The victim died of a single gunshot wound to the head.
• A police chief and a traffic police officer were shot to death in a shootout in Huatabampo, Sonora, say Mexican news reports. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Ocampo and Madero in the Centro district, where the two police were ambushed by armed suspects riding in convoy. Reports say Guadalupe Montiel Jiménez, 43, and Jesus Horacio Pacheco Moroyoqui, 33, were shot with AK-47 assault rifles by armed suspects in a convoy with a Ford Lobo and a Nissan Pathfinder. The attack took place only meters from a primary school.
• A man was shot to death near Sonoyta, Sonora Friday, say Mexican news accounts. Jesus Barba Trinidad Duarte, 62, was shot once in the head with a .380 caliber weapon on the La Nariz farm, El Rancho La Zorra.
• A man was shot to death in Etchojoa, Sonora early Saturday morning, say Mexican press accounts. Trinidad Ibarra Borbon, 54, was found shot four times with a 9mm weapon near his residence in the El Jito barrio by armed suspects riding aboard a red pickup truck. Borbon was employed as a bar manager in downtown Etchojoa.
• A man was shot to death in Hermosillo, Sonora, according to Mexican press accounts. Irvin Gael Varela Ruelas, 22, was shot twice in the chest. Reports say police were looking for Francisco Javier Quijada Quijada, 21, in connection to the murder. Quijada Quijada was at one point a renowned singer in northern Mexico.
• Two inmates at the Torreon, Coahuila Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) were killed in a brawl Friday, say Mexican press accounts. Javier Ivan Chairez Gonzalez, 22, and Sebastian Mendoza Lopez, 24, apparently killed one another in a death match in the prison yard at about 1140 hrs both using some sort of sharp weapons. Gonzalez was on trial for murder.
• An unidentified man in his 20s was found shot to death near a farm in Matamoros municipality (county), Coahuila. The victim was found with a gunshout wound to the head on a road in the El Pacifico farm.