More Mexican Mayhem
2011-02-27
Posted by: badanov
16 Die in Juarez
A total of 16 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang violence including a Juarez female municipal police officer kidnapped and then shot to death shortly afterwards.
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- A man was shot to death Thursday evening in Juarez. Alejandro Ontiveros, 36, was in the driveway of his residence near the intersection of calles Jarudo Oriente and Sierra de las Candelarias in the Trascendio Infonavit Jarudo in the colony when he was shot. Ontiveros lost a wheelchair bound brother in a shooting on December 18th in a nearby park.
The brief published in Rantburg on that murder can be found here.
- Three members of the same family were found shot to death Friday morning after being reported abducted three weeks ago. Malena, Elias and Luisa Reyes, wife of Elijah, were found in the Valley of Juärez colony near Guadalupe shot to death with several "narcomessages" nearby. The messages accused the family of being scouts for organized crime.
- Two unidentified individuals were shot to death Friday in two separate attacks Friday, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
- A man was found shot to death near the corner of calles Higuera and Dalias in the Fransisco Villa colony. Reports say the victim was shot six times with a 9mm weapon.
- A man was found shot to death on calle Genaro Vazquez in the Tierra y Libertad colony.
- Two auto mechanics were shot to death in Juarez Friday. The victims were shot near the intersection of calles Buenavista and Oriente in the Infonavit Jarudo colony more than 20 times.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death and a third was wounded in a shooting in Juarez Friday afternoon. The victims were standing in the doorway of a residence near the intersection of calles Cafeto and Copaiba in the Ampliacion Aeropuerto colony when they shot. Two of the victims died at the scene, and the third is not expected to survive the attack.
- A Chihuahua state police agent killed himself Friday afternoon in Juarez. Arturo Fuentes shot himself at his residence on corner of calles Amozoc and Grosella in the Erendira colony using a 9mm pistol.
- An unidentified pregnant female was wounded in a shooting in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. The victim was walking near the corner of calle Praderas de Manitova and Praderas de Calahan in the Urbi Villas colony in southern Chihuahua. Armed suspects aboard two vehicles fired on a row of three houses in the area, then fled the area.
- An unidentified man in his 20s was shot to death in Juarez Saturday. The victim was walking alone near the intersection of Eje Vial Juan Gabriel and Genaro Vazquez in the Tierra y Libertad colony when two other young men shot the victim.
- Three unidentified men were shot to death at a gas station in Juarez Saturday. The victims were aboard a Mazda sedan at a filling station near the intersection of Eje Vial Juan Gabriel and Genaro Väazquez in the Tierra y Libertad colony.
- An unidentified female municipal police officer was abducted from her home and then murdered Saturday. The officer was taken from her residence in the El Mezquital colony, and then dumped out near the intersection of Fortin de Soledad and Oaxaca in the Morelos II colony, stripped naked at the waist, then shot four times with a 9mm weapon. The victim was killed less than a quarter mile from the Babicnora police station.