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More Mexican Mayhem
2011-02-11
Posted by: badanov

38 Die in Northern Mexico

A total of 38 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence which included the murder of a Juarez police commander Tuesday.

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• An unidentified woman was shot to death Sunday in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. The victim was found near the corner of Avenida Venceremos and Calle Mina Ojos Azule hands bound and shot numerous times. Several spent 9mm casings were found at the scene.
• An unidentified man was shot to death near Juarez Sunday. The victim was found at a bus stop on the Porvenir-Juarez highway. Reports said armed suspects aboard a vehicle shot he victim just after he exited from a bus.
• Bus passengers were robbed Sunday evening near Delicias, Chihuahua. Reports say an armed suspect stepped aboard a bus on the Delicias-Juarez highway and demanded cash and jewelry. The suspect then jumped away to flee the scene as soon as he collected his loot.
• Two unidentified men were shot to death Sunday night. The victims were found on Calle Jose Luis Revilla in the Constitucion colony aboard a Chevrolet Cavalier sedan. The driver crashed the sedan into a parked pickup truck when he was shot.
• A decapitated man was found dead near Chihuahua, Chihuahua Monday. The victim was found with his hands bound on Kilometer 5 of the Periferico Lombardo Toledano, near the Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) near Serdan Achilles, east of Chihuahua city. Several .223 caliber spent casings were found at the scene. The victim was shot in the back twice.
• A man and his wife were shot to death Tueday in Palomas, Chihuahua. Don Alfredo Sandoval 50, and his unidentified wife were shot at his scrap business in Palomas by armed suspects. Don Alfredo Sandoval had recently been charged with a triple murder after three men attepted to rob his business last January 21st. Don Alfredo Sandoval 50 shot the three with his own weapon, killing all three.
• An unidentified wheelchair bound man was shot to death in Juarez Wednesday. The victim was found near the intersection of calles Cortazar and Polen in the 15 de Enero colony shot five times.
• An inmate at the Juarez municipal Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) was stabbed to death by several fellow inmates Wednesday. Arturo Matancillas Lozoya 28, died of his wounds following a brief pursuit prior to being killed. Matancillas Lozoya was one of the kidnappers involved in the Ascension, Chihuahua incident in which three of his alleged accomplices were lynched by the towns people last September.
• An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Tuesday. Theb victim was shot near the corner of calles Tlaxcala and Republica del Salvador in the Hidalgo colony. Reports say a 9mm weapon was used in the murder.
• An unidentified man was shot to death in his car in Juarez Tuesday night. The victim was pursued through the streets of La Chavena colony by armed suspects aboard a vehicle. The victim crashed his car into a residence near the intersection of calles José Urquidi and Carlos Pacheco when he attempted to reverse his field where he was found shot.
• Two unidentified woman were shot to death in two separate incident in Juarez Wednesday night, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka.
  • A woman was found shot to death near the intersection of calles Presa de la Amistad and Presa Malpaso in the Independencia I colony. The victim was dumped out of a Jeep Cherokee SUV with her hands and feet bound.
  • A woman was shot to death near a nursery. The victim, who was apparently a worker at the day care was shot near the intersection of calles Emiliano Zapata and Santa Fe in the Nuevo Mexico colony. Reports say robbery may have been a motive for the shooting.
• An unidentified man was beaten to death in Juarez Thursday morning, The victim was found near the corner of calles Honduras and Chapala in the Hidalgo colony gagged with tape. A note was written using an indelible marker on the victim's body saying he was an extortionist.
• A Chihuahua state police agent was shot to death early Thursday morning. Manuel Gonzalez Gonzalez, was found near the intersection of Calle 56 and privada de Urueta in the Rosario colony shot numerous times with an AR-15 assault rifle. The officer was apparently unable to defend himself as had been ordered by his superior to leave his weapon locked away as Mexican President Felipe Calderon was to arrive that day. 27 spent cartridge casings were found at the scene.
• Three unidentified men were shot Thursday in Juarez. The victims were aboard a Ford Explorer near the intersection of calles Mar Rojo and Simona Barba with AK-47 assault rifles. The armed suspects who did the Bosque colon shooting were also aboard a vehicle when the shooting took place.
• An office building was burned to the ground by armed suspects Thursday. The building which housed the offices of lawyers and accountants was located near the corner of calles Simona Barba and Juan Morales in the Melchor Ocampo colony. Reports say armed suspects used Molotov cocktails to destroy the building. No one was reported hurt in the assault.
• An unidentified man was shot numerous times in Juarez Thursday, The victim was aboard a car near the intersection of avenidas Tecnologico and Granjero when he was shot. Though wounded, he managed to drive to a location where he found an ambulance.
• A Juarez police commander was shot to death Thursday in Juarez. Comandante Ontiveros was shot aboard a Dodge Ram near the corner of calles Sahuaro and Jilotepec following a brief chase to elude his attackers.
• Three unidentified men were shot to death in three separate attacks Thursday, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka.
  • A man was shot to death in the village of Loma Blanca.
  • A man walking on the streets was shot to death near the corner of calles Guillermo Prieto and Ocampo in the Obrera colony.
  • A man in La Chaveña colony was shot to death in front of the Clinica del Seguro Social clinic. The victim was hit at least six times by gunfire,
• Two employees of a taqueria were shot to death in Juarez Thursday. The victims were shot near the intersection of avenidas Tecnologico and Agua Caliente.
• A man was shot to death in front of his home in Hermosillo, Sonora Wednesday afternoon. Agapito Enriquez Rocha was sitting aboard his Chevrolet Corsica sedan when he was fired on three times by a lone armed suspect using an AK-47 assault rifle in the Altares colony. Reports say the suspect then fled aboard a Dodge Cirrus sedan.
• An unidentified man was found shot to death east of Mexicali, Baja California. The victim was found along a road in the zona Oriente of Mexicali, Baja California.
• An unidentified man was shot to death and his two year old daughter was wounded in an attack in Tijuana, Baja California. José Israel Lira Lizarraga, 21, was driving his Nissan Altima on Calle Miguel Hidalgo in the Loma Bonita colony when he was shot. The girl was hit in the leg by gunfire and is expected to survive the attack.
• Three individuals were murdered in and near Torreon, Coabuila Wednesday, according to the Mexican news daily El Sol del Laguna
  • An unidentified man in his 20s was found beaten to death in Torreon, Coahuila. The victim was found on the road to Rancho Alegre near the intersection of bulevar Torreon-Matamoros with his body showing signs of torture as well as a beating.
  • An unidentified couple was found near Torreon shot to death. The make and female were found in the bed of a Chevrolet Silverado in the ejido Jabonoso. A threatening message was found with the bodies, but the text was not disclosed.
• Three individuals were shot to death and two others were wounded in an attack at a carwash Sunday night. The crime took place near the intersection of Bulevar Laguna and Calle Tercera in the Vicente Guerrero colony. The victims are identified as José Luis Perez Acevedo, 35, Oscar de Jesus Dominguez Mejia, 15, and an unidentified victim in his 40s. Wounded were Gamboa Francisco Javier Ramirez, 26, and Juan Ignacio Ramirez, 35. Reports say armed suspects traveling aboard a pickup truck fired AK-47s at the victims. 20 spent shell casings were found at the scene.
• A total of four individuals were murdered in Torreon, Coahuila since Sunday.
  • An unidentified man in his 50s was shot to death Monday. The victim was found near the intersection of Negro de Torreon bridge and Avenida Ferrocarril in the Nueva Rosita colony shot 13 times.
  • An unidentified man in his 40s was found shot to death Monday. The victim was found on Calle Ildefonso Fuentes in the Venecedora colony with a single gunshot wound to the head. The victim was also bound hand and foot and gagged with a plastic bag.
  • A taxi driver in his 20s was found shot to death Monday morning in Torreon. Juan Antonio Campos Saucedo was found aboard his taxi cab in the La Fe colony. He had been shot three times.
  • A bus driver was shot to death by Mexican SWAT units in Torreon Modnay. Miguel Soto Grijalva, 33, opened fired on police near the intersection of Calle H and Avenida Sexta in the Eduardo Guerra colony incident to a traffic stop by Coahuila state police agents. Police found drugs and a .380 caliber pistol in Soto Grijalva's Mitsubishi Lancer sedan.
• A television broascast engineer in Torreon, Coahuila was shot to death. Rodolfo Ochoa Moreno was on a field job working on television antennas in the Cerro de las Noas colony. Reports say six armed suspects shot the victim, then stole tools and equipment. Several 9mm spent shell casing were found at the scene.