More Mexican Mayhem
2011-03-01
Posted by: badanov
32 Die in northern Mexico
A total of 32 individuals were killed in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico including two Sonora state police agents ambushed by armed suspects in Hermosillo, Sonora Monday.
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- A former municipal police officer was found shot to death in Parral, Chihuahua early Saturday morning. Cesar Alvarez, 36, was found on Norberto Dominguez Extrnesion in Parral shot in the chest and back. Alvarez was a police officer in Parral and Villa Matamoros.
- Five unidentified individuals were shot to death at a bar in Juarez early Sunday morning. The victims were drinking at the La Brecha bar on carretera Casas Grandes in the Villa Esperanza colony when they were shot. Armed suspects entered the bar at just past midnight.
- A man and a woman were found shot to death early Sunday morning in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Alfredo Norvea Parra, and Nancy Ivette Martinez were found lying face down next to a bridge on boulevard Juan Pablo II. Reports say the couple were kidnapped from a residence on calle Sexta in the Villa Juärez colony the night before.
- An unidentified man was shot to death Sunday in Juarez. The victim was at his residence near the intersection of calles Paraguay and Chihuahua in the Melchor Ocampo colony when an armed suspect came to the door and shot him.
- A man was shot to death and another man was wounded in a shooting in Juarez Sunday. Carlos Santos, 30, and Luis Alonso Chavez, 31, were aboard a Dodge Stratus near the corner of calles Centeno and Tecnologico when armed suspects shot them. The victims managed to call for assistance on a local police officer guarding a First Cash Pawn Shop at the intersection of calles Cordillera de los Andes and Tecnologico when Carlos Santos died.
- An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Sunday. The victim was near the intersection of calles Guadiana and Rumania in the Azteca colony when he was shot. Reports say he was shot 12 times with rifle fire.
- Five individuals were shot to death at a bar in Parral, Chihuahua late Sunday night. The victims were found at the Mi Ranchito bar on calles Del Rayo. One of the victim was reportedly a police agent with the Chihuahua state attorney general's office, who officed in nearby Guachochi, although the information was not confirmed. Several spent .38 caliber casings were found at the scene.
- Two men were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Sunday night. The victims were near the intersection of calles Paracaidistas and Pascual Orozco in the Villa Nueva colony when they were shot by armed suspects using AK-47 assault rifles. One victim was tentatively identified as Jose Angel Esparza Castruita, 29, while the other was unidentified.
- Four unidentified individuals were shot to death in an ambush in Juarez Monday. The shooting took place near the intersection of Avenida Ejercito Nacional and Calle Plutarco in front of the Soriana shopping center where the victims were aboard a Ford Taurus. Armed suspects rolled up on the Ford and fired into the vehicle. Reports say the gunfire was so intense one victim, a 10 year old child, was almost decapitated.
- An alleged thief was shot to death near a technical school in Juarez Monday afternoon. The victim was crossing calle Caridad Bravo Adams near calle Ponciano in the Revolucion Mexicana colony when he was shot at around 1600 hrs. Reports say the victim was known thief of auto batteries in the area.
- Two Sonora state Policia Estatal Investigadora (PEI) agents were shot to death by armed suspects in an ambush in Hermosillo, Sonora. Manuel Angel Lopez Roman and Ramon Enrique Huerta Castillo were responding to a kidnapping call in the Urbi Villa del Cedro colony when they attempted to stop suspects aboard a vehicle near the intersection of calles Rio San Pedro and Paseo del Cedro. Apparently other armed suspects were aboard another vehicle the police agents did not notice, which then moved to box the agents in prior to opening fire. Reports say AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles were used against the agents.
- Two men were shot to death and a couple was wounded in two separate shootings in Tijuana, Baja California Sunday, according to the Mexican news website Frontera.info.
- Jose Arturo Castro Renteria, 17, was found in a residence on Calle Nardo in the Las Delicias colony shot in the chest. Reports were an unidentified couple was wounded in the same attack, and that they were taken to a local clinic for medical attention. Prior to finding Castro Rentaria, police on the scene found 13 .45 caliber spent shell casings.
- Andres Excalibur Niebla Escobar, 19, died at Hospital Angeles in Zona Rio from gunshot wounds he suffered earlier in the morning. Reports say the victim was at a bar near the intersection of calle Sonoita and calle Sonora in the exclusive Chapultepec colony when he was shot.
- Five individuals were shot to death in a bar in Torreon, Coahuila over the weekend. The shooting took place at the Virreyes bar near the intersection of Avenida Presidente Carranza and Calle Idelfonso Fuentes. Four of the victims were identified as Jorge Juarez Mendez, 55, Lino Rivera Sanchez, 68, Clemente Caro Balderas, 56 and Heriberto Gallegos Chavez, 72. The fifth victim, a man in his 30s, was not identified.