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More Mexican Mayhem
2010-10-15
Posted by: badanov

12 Die in Northern Mexico

twelve individuals were murdered in northern Mexican in drug and gang related violence that included a city bus yard manager shot Wednesday night, and one Juarez police officer shot while on his way to work his shift.

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• A manager at a Juarez city bus park was shot and seriously wounded Wednesday night, say Mexican news accounts. Reports say an armed group forced open the gates of the city bus pound on Kilometer 20 of the Juarez-Casas Grandes highway, and after shooting the manager, torched several buses using Molotov cocktails, destroying four and damaging several others.
• A Juarez municipal police officer was shot to death early Thursday morning, according to Mexican news accounts. On the corner of Gomez Morin and Fuentes del Valle was where Arturo Gomez Guzman was shot numerous times in his Dodge Neon. Gomez Guzman was assigned to the Delicias station.
• An unidentified woman was shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Wednesday night, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was shot near the intersection of calles Allende and 14th in the city central zone, where armed suspects aboard a van spoke with the victim who was on foot, before shooting her. 9mm weapons were used in the murder.
• An unidentified woman was found beheaded in an SUV in Juarez Thursday morning near a shopping mall,say Mexican press accounts. The victim was found in a Jeep Grand Cherokee on the corner of avenidas Plutarco Elias Calles and Ejercito Nacional near the Soriana Iglesias shopping center. The victim's severed head was found inside a plastic bag inside the vehicle.
• A former Juarez police chief was shot to death at his home in Juarez Thursday morning, according to Mexican news accounts. Sergio Mendoza Carrillo at his residence in Paseos del Alba and Liras was shot 20 times and his corpse was thrown into the backyard. Carrillo was Juarez police chief during the previous administration of current Juarez Mayor Teto Murguila, but retired during the term of former Mayor José Reyes Ferriz because of death threats.
• Two unidentified men were shot to death in Valle de Juarez Thursday morning. The victims were found at the entrance to the town of Guadalupe. Valle de Juarez is about 35 kilometers southwest of Juarez.
• An unidentified man was found immolated at a landfill in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Thursday say Mexican press reports. The partially decomposed body of the victim was found near the intersection of calles 55 and Postes in the Granjas del Valle district.
• An unidentified man was shot to death in the roof of a residence as he attempted to escape an armed attack Thursday afternoon, say Mexican news sources. The attack took place near the intersection of calles María Teresa Rojas and Volcan Nevado in the Parajes de San Isidro district where the victim was shot by armed suspects using 9mm pistols.
• The partially burned body of an unidentified man was found near Mexicali, Baja California Wednesday, say Mexican news reports. The victim was found in the trunk of a sedan one kilometer from the corner of Libramiento La Rosita-Centinela road near the town of Coronitas.
• A man was found shot to death on a remote road near Parral, Chihuahua Tuesday, say Mexican news accounts. José Manuel Unzueta Duarte, 34, was found with his Dodge Ram pickup truck on the Balleza-El Tule road where he had been dumped along with his truck. His vehicle was damaged from a shooting.
• A man was found shot to death at a residence near Parral, Chihuahua Tuesday, according to Mexican news accounts. Víctor Javier Chavira Ramírez, 21, was found dead in the bathroom of the house in the Villa Ahumada district in Balleza shot numerous times.
• A man was found shot to death near Guadalupe y Calvo near Parral, Chihuahua, say Mexican press reports. Julio Manuel Arzabala Mata, 40, was found shot with an AK-47 assault rifle in his residence in Guadalupe y Calvo because of an anonymous phoned in tip.