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More Mexican Mayhem
2011-04-20
Posted by: badanov

44 Die in Northern Mexico

A total of 44 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence, which included a Juarez police commander shot to death at his residence last Friday.

• Two unidentified individuals were shot and wounded in an attack at an veternarian's office in Juarez last Thursday. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Niños Heroes and Porfirio Diaz in the Melchor Ocampo colony. Reports say extortion may have been a factor in the shooting.
• An unidentified man said to be an attorney was shot and wounded in Juarez Thursday. The victim was driving his Pontiac Grand Am sedan near the intersection of calles Norzagaray and Cloro when he was fired on. The victim then drove his vehicle to the Puente Sante Fe to seek refuge where a Mexican Army unit had set up a checkpoint.
• Three children were burned to death in an attack in Juarez Thursday. The children's mother said individuals threw a Molotov cocktail at her residence in the Alta Vista colony. The three victims, aged 4 and 3 years old, and 18 months old, were unable to escape, but the mother did with minor injuries.
• An unidentified man was shot to death and his female companion was wounded in Juarez Thursday afternoon. The victims were walking together near the intersection of Zaragoza and Ramon Rayon in the Zaragoza colony when shooters aboard a vehicle fired on them.
• An unidentified man and woman were shot to death in Juarez Thursday. The victims were travelling aboard a Ford Explorer in the Linda Vista colony when they were pursued by armed suspects for a brief time before they were shot.
• A skeleton was found in the Juarez-Casa Grandes highway Thursday. The victim's remains were scattered around a 60 meter radius in the Plaza de Acuña colony.
• A Juarez police commander was shot to death at his residence in Juarez Friday. Commandante Mario Ramon Gonzalez Echevarria was shot at his home near the intersection of calles Posada Pompa and San Juan.
• An unidentified man was shot to death Friday in Juarez. The victim was performing maintenance on a vehicle near the intersection of calles Rincon de Extremadura and Ramon Rayon in the Rinconada del Torres colony when armed suspects shot and killed him. Nine 9mm spent cartridge casings were found at the scene.
• An unidentified man was shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday. The victim was near a convenience store filling station when armed suspects travelling aboard two SUVs shot and killed the victim.
• Two unidentified men were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua in two separate incidents Friday, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
  • A Chihuahua municipal police officer was shot to death near the intersection of calles 24 and Secretaría de Hacienda. Reports say armed suspects travelling aboard a Toyota SUV were the shooters.
  • An man was shot to death near the intersection of calles Orquídeas and 2 de abril. The armed suspects involved matched the description of another armed group which murdered another man earlier in the day in northern Chihuahua city.
• A man was shot to death in Juarez Friday night. Victor Alonso Chavez was shot twice outside his residence near the intersection of calles Justo Sierra and Che Guevara in the Manuel Valdez colony.A message was left with the victim, but its contents were not revealed.
• An unidentified man was shot to death and the female accompanying him was wounded in a shooting in southern Juarez late Friday night. The victim was shot eight times near then intersection of calles Sendero Nebata and Sendero Mancebo in the Senderos de San José colony.
• Two unidentified men were wound executed and mutilated in Chihuahua, Chihuahua early Saturday morning. The victims were found in the Venceremos colony with a message left presumably by their executioners. The content of the message was not revealed.
• A search Sunday of the Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) in Serdan Achilles turned up numerous contraband, including two .380 caliber pistols, 161 rounds of ammunition for various weapons, 114 doses of marijuana, a cigarette rolling machine, 18 doses of cocaine, five cell phones, 44 doses of methamphetamine and six gallons on homemade liquor.
• An unidentified man was found beheaded and mutilated in Juarez Sunday morning. The victim's head had been placed on a stick near the intersection of calles Paraguay and Malecon in the Hidalgo colony. A message was scribbled on a wall as a warning to El Chapo. the street name of Oaquin Guzman Loera, leader of the Sinaloa cartel.
• Two unidentified men were found murdered in two separate incidents in Juarez Sunday, according to the Mexican news weekly La Polaka.
  • A man was found shot to death and wrapped in a blanket near then intersection of calles Miguel de la Madrid and Aerojuarez.
  • A man was found tortured to death in an abandoned office building on Calle 20 de Noviembre.
• An unidentified man in his 20s was found beaten to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Sunday. The victim was found in an arroyo in the El Mirador colony.
• An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Sunday evening. The victim was found bound hand and foot and gagged with duct tape, then dumped in an abandoned dump near the intersection of calles La Conquista and Lamprea. He had a single gunshot wound to the head.
• A man was shot to death in Juarez Sunday evening. Jesus Manuel Carmona, 43, was near the corner of calles Octava and Hermanos Barragan in the 2 de Octubre colony when three men shot him, and then fled aboard a vehicle.
• Two unidentified individuals were shot to death and one man was wounded in two separate incidents in Juarez late Sunday night, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
  • A man was shot to death in the Infonavit Salvarcar colony aboard a pickup truck and then dumped on the streets. A companion was also shot but survived the shooting.
  • A man was forcibly removed from his vehicle near then intersection of calles Manuel Ponce and Municipio Libre and then shot to death.
• A woman was shot to death a remote location late Sunday night. Judith Gabaldon Gaytan, 23, was shot on the Chihuahua-Juarez highway near the Siete Cabecitas monument. She was a resident of Juarez.
• A woman was shot to death in Meoqui, Chihuahua early Monday mrning. Rubi Elizabeth Renteria Villareal, 36, was shot inside a commercial establishment called Snack. Several AK-47 assault rifle spent cartridge casings were found at the scene.
• An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Monday. The victim was aboard a step van near the intersection of calles China and Fiji in the Infonavit Tecnológico colooy near the Jose Marti primary school. Six 9mm spent cartridge casings were found at the scene.
• Two unidentified men were shot to death at a tire shop in Juarez Monday afternoon. The victims were at the shop located near the corner of calles Mora and Granjero when they were attacked. Several .40 caliber and AK-47 assault rifle spent cartridge casings were found at the scene.
• Three young men were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Monday afternoon. Reports say the victims were pursued by armed suspects who were riding aboard two vehicles near the intersection of calle Che Guevara in the 20 Aniversario colony when they were shot.
• An unidentified teenager was shot to death in Juarez Monday. The victim was practicing dance moves in a residence near the intersection of calles Pez Espada and Cangrejo in the Apapra colony when armed suspects shot him.
• Two individuals were shot to death in two separate incident in Sonora, according to the Mexican news daily Critica.
  • Raul Trinidad Arteaga, a teacher at the Escuela Secundaria General Manuel Antiguez Camberos numero 7, was shot to death as he boarded his Ford Lobo (F-150) pickup truck on calle Francisco Villanueva in the Algodones colony in Ciudad Obregon last Friday. His unidentified daughter was in the vehicle when the attack took place but was unharmed.
  • A municipal police officer in Huatabampo, Sonora was found shot to death in Jiconhueca, Sonora. Alberto Escarcega Robles, 49, was a 20 year law enforcement veteran, and was found in an irrigation ditch tortured and shot.
• The 70 year old mother of a former police officer was stabbed to death in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora Monday. Alejandrina Vivian García, 70, was stabbed to death in front of her son, Alejandro Vivian Garcia, who was found bound and stabbed in chains at a residence near the intersection of calles Zaragoza and Sonora in the Ezperanza colony. Alejandro Vivian Garcia was formerly with the Ciudad Obreon tactical response unit before he was dismissed earlier last year.
• Two unidentified men in their 20s were shot to death in Caborca, Sonora Monday. The victims were found on the Las Calabazas road.
• Two men and two women were shot to death, and one woman was wounded in Tijuana, Baja California, Monday. Police were dispatched to a residence on Calle Benito Juärez in the Niño Artillero colony in the Sanchez Taboada delegation, where they encountered a woman in her 30s who apparently had been wounded in the shooting. Inside the residence were found Alma Delia Urrutia Carrillo, 38, Jose Manuel Navarro Zaragoza, 35, Carlos Veläsquez Zaragoza, 30, and Diana Esmeralda Godines Rodriguez, 30. Reports say eight 9mm spent cartridge casings were found at the scene.
• A man was shot to death at a business in Tijuana, Baja California Sunday night. José Enrique Cisneros Bojorquez, 23, was shot in the neck by a lone armed suspect at the Extra store in the Parque Industrial Pacífico colony. The armed suspect then fled the scene on foot towards the Camino Verde colony.
• A six year old girl was shot in Torreon, Coahuila Sunday morning. The victim was caught between two armed groups when a stray round hit her in one of her buttocks. Her wound was classified as minor and she is expected to survive the shooting.
• One man was shot to death and another was wounded in a shootout in a nightclub in Torreon, Coahuila late Friday night. Jose Arredondo Corrujedo, 49, died early Saturday morning while Sergio Delgado, 35 was released after being treated. The shooting took place at the Boomerang night club near the intersection of bulevars Miguel Aleman and Rebollo Acosta. Reports say at least two shooters were involved