More Mexican Mayhem
2011-03-14
Posted by: badanov
26 Die in Northern Mexico
A total of 26 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence including seven unidentified individuals shot to death at a residence in Juarez Saturday night.
- An unidentified woman in her 30s was found shot to death in Juarez last Thursday morning. The victim was found near the intersection of Malecon and 5 de Mayo, which is about four city blocks from Juarez city hall.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Thursday. The victims were in a tire shop adjacent to a small grocery store near the corner of calles Almada and Soto y Gama in the Francisco I Madero colony when they were shot. Reports say one of the victims may have been armed with an automatic pistol.
- One unidentified Mexican federal agent was shot to death and two others were wounded in an apparent ambush in Chihuahua Thursday. The police were aboard a Chevrolet sedan near the intersection of calles Acuario and Cancer in the Luis Olague colony when they were shot. All three were Agencia Federal Investigaciones (AFI) agents.
- An unidentified woman in her 30s was found shot to death in northern Juarez Thursday night. The victim was driving her Chevrolet BLazer SUV near the intersection of calle Azcapotzalco and Cananea when she was shot and struck in the head.
- An unidentified female municipal police officer was shot then later died in Juarez Thursday night. The officer was leaving for work at the Babicora police station when she was intercepted near the intersection of calle Azcapotzalco and Cananea in the Moderna colony. She died at about 0100 hrs at a local hospital.
- Two prison guards were wounded in an apparent escape attempt in eastern Juarez Friday. The officers were part of a convoy transferring prisoners to a state prison when they were attacked and shot by armed suspects near the corner of Bulevar Independencia and Calle Custodio de la Republica. The security detail in the convoy attempted to pursue armed suspects who were aboard a Chevrolet Suburban who did the shooting, but halted the pursuit when the suspect threw away their weapons and escaped.
- An unidentified man was found murdered and decomposing near a village near Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday. The victim was found in the truck of a Dodge Neon sedan with his hands bound o Kilometer 23 of the Chihuahua-Juarez highway near the intersection of calles Del Progreso and De la Fe in the village of Sacramento.
- An unidentified man was found beaten and strangled to death in Juarez late Friday night. The victim was found in a vacant lot near the intersection of Ramon Aranda and Victoria in the Barrio Alto.
- An unidentified man was shot to death late Friday night in Juarez. The victim was driving his Honda Accord with his family near the intersection of Gomez Morin and Campestre when he was shot. Other people in the car were not harmed in the attack.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez in two separate incidents Saturday morning, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
- A man was shot to death in the La Cuesta colony.
- A man was shot to death in the Mariano Escobedo colony.
- An off duty municipal police officer was shot to death in a remote area overlooking Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday morning. Police had been alerted by an unidentified female acquaintance who telephoned for help. Armed suspects shot Teofilo Rivera Valenzuela, an agent of the Chihuahua Direccion de Seguridad Publica Municipal (DSPM), and then stole his car and his personal weapon.
- An unidentified man was found tortured and wrapped in a blanket in Juarez Saturday. The victim was found near the corner of calles Republica de Chile and Chapala in the Hidalgo colony with a message to Juarez's new police chief, Julian Leyzaola. The message read in part: "Welcome to Juarez, Julian Leysola. This is your first gift and this will continue going..." The message was signed by the Sinaloa cartel.
- Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Saturday afternoon. One of the victims was the owner of the Zulma convenience store near the intersection of calles Alberto Carrera Torres and Calixto Contreras in the Revolucion Mexicana colony, while a second man, an unidentified customer in the store, died from stray gunfire.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Saturday night. The victim was found in the Camino Viejo colony with a narco message which read: "Fucking Diego. preferably to go with the government for no pay, filthy cock." The "Diego" reference was to the street name of Sinaloa's Juarez commander, Diego, who routinely signs "narcopintas" or blankets with written messages on them. These and graffiti on walls are a common means of mass communications with people from drug gangs throughout Mexico.
Not all narco messages come from drug cartels. Local municipal police have in the past been caught with similarly signed messages.
- An unidentified armed robbery suspect was shot to death in front of passengers of a tour bus in Juarez Saturday. The suspect was making an attempt to rob the passengers the bus when he was intercepted and shot by other armed suspects. The driver was wounded by stray gunfire, but was treated at the scene.
- A man was shot to death by municipal police officers in Tijuana, Baja California Friday morning. Luis Ramirez Leonardo Rocha, 32, was shot as he ran down the streets on the libramiento Salvador Rosas Magallon. A shotgun and a .40 caliber automatic pistol were found on him following the shooting. Leonardo Rocha only minutes before the shooting, had fired his weapon on a nearby food kiosk wounding an unidentified civilian.
- Seven unidentified individuals were shot to death in an early morning shooting in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Sunday. The victims were holding a meeting at a residence near the intersection of calles 1 de Mayo and Venceremos in the Tierra y Libertad colony when armed suspects from a four or five vehicle convoy entered the home and started shooting.