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More Mexican Mayhem
2011-05-27
Posted by: badanov

36 Die in Northern Mexico

A total of 36 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican states including a Juarez municipal police captain shot to death Wednesday.

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• Two unidentified men were shot to death and two others were wounded in three separate shootings in Juarez Monday, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
  • A man was shot to death about a parked Volkswagen Bora sedan near the intersection of calle Monte Verde and Manzaneros.
  • A man was shot to death outside a residence on Avenida Pedro Rosales de Leon.
  • Two men were shot and wounded aboard their Ford SUV near the intersection of calles Eje Vial Juan Gabriel and Macheteros. One of the victims had his two children with him, ages 4 and 2, who were unharmed in the shooting.
• An unidentified man was found beheaded and mutilated in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Tuesday. The victim was found at a drive-in theater in the Quintas Carolinas colony. A message was left in the victim's torso about the victim being a "rat".
• Four unidentified men were shot to death at a residence in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Tuesday afternoon. The shooting took place on Calle Alamillo in the Tarahumara colony where armed suspects broke into the residence and started firing. Two men were killed in the residence while two others were hunted and killed on Calle Margarita Maza de Juarez in the Ruiz Massie colony.
• An unidentified Juarez municipal police agent was shot to death and two women were wounded in a shooting in Juarez late Tuesday night. The shooting began near the corner of calles Las Torres and Rayon at the Plaza Las Torres and ended near the corner of calles La Mitla and Lucero. The victim was aboard his Honda sedan when he was attacked.
• An unidentified man was found beheaded and mutilated in Juarez late Tuesday night. The victim was found near the intersection of calles privada Sacramento and Angel in the Jardines de Sacramento colony with a message written on his body. The content of the message was not revealed.
• A Juarez municipal police captain was shot to death Wednesday morning. Police captain Manuel Rivas Lopez was in his residence at the end of his shift when he was attacked near the intersection of calles Joaquin Soto and Daniel Garcia in the Oasis Revolucion colony. Nearby Policia Federal agents pursued one of the vehicles involved in the attack, and arrested the driver, who had at least one rifle in his possession. Agents later arrested three others said to be involved in the murder
• An unidentified man was shot to death next to a primary school in Juarez Wednesday. The victim was shot on calle Tixtla next to the Fernando Montes de Oca primary school. No one else was hurt in the attack. Reports were the victim was a local drug dealer
• An unidentified mother and daughter were shot to death Wednesday in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Rosa and Xitlaly Luna were found in a residence near the intersection of Plaza del Clavijero and Imperio in the Villas del Rey colony.
• An unidentified man was shot to death in Chihuhaua, Chihuahua Wednesday night. The victim was at a garage on bulevar Juan Pablo II near the bus station when he was shot.
• Two inmates at the Serdan Achilles Centro de Readaptacion Social (CERESO) were stabbed to death in their cells. David Humberto Mejia Guerra, 51, and Luis Hernandez Marti, 28, were found only hours after an escape tunnel was dismantled in the prison.
• An unidentified man was shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Thursday morning. The victim was on foot near the intersection of calles 16th and Allende in the Santa Rita colony when three armed suspects travelling aboard a Ford Mustang shot and killed him.
• An unidentified individual was found dead near Juarez Thursday. The victim was found on Periferico Camino Real.He was apparently too badly decomposed to determine the cause of death or identity.
• A man was shot to death in Juarez Thursday afternoon. Jose Angel Gurrola was near the intersection of calles Tixtla and Iguala in the Galeana colony when armed suspects travelling aboard a pickup truck fired AK-47 assault rifles at him killing him.
• Five individuals were shot to death and a sixth was found dead in Tijuana, Baja California Monday and Tuesday, according to the Mexican news daily website Frontera.info
  • Rodolfo Mendez Mendoza and Ismael Carmona Moreno were found in a construction area on calle Durango in the Mexico Lindo colony Wednesday. Three spent 12 gauge shotgun shells and an unfired .22 caliber round were found at the scene.
  • Lucy Espinoza Sandoval, 29, was found inside a Honda CRV SUV at a residence on Avenida Lomas Virreyes Sur in the Lomas Virreyes colony shot several times in the head. The incident took place Wednesday night.
  • Two unidentified men were shot to death on calle Rampa Murua near the Parque de la Amistad in the Centenario delegation late Wednesday night.
  • Skeletal remains of an unidentified individual were found at the Caballerizas de Real del Mar ranch.
• A man was shot to death in Tijuana late Wednesday night. Cesar Cejas Alvarado, 27, was conversing with another unidentified man when armed suspects aboard a Nissan X-Terra SUV fired on the man and killed him. The shooting took place on Calle Rio Chondoinn the Rio Vista colony.
• One unidentified Torreon, Coahuila municipal police officer and an unidentified armed suspect were shot to death in a shootout in Torreon Wednesday night. The police officer was shot to death during a traffic stop on Peripheral Raul Lopez in Torreon, where a suspect driving a sedan got out and shot one of two officers in the patrol unit to death as the officer approached the vehicle. The second officer dismounted the vehicle and fired on the suspect, killing him.
• An unidentified man was found shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila Tuesday. The victim was found near the intersection of Calle Nagano and Avenida Universidad in the Sol de Oriente colony shot several times. The victim was apparently killed in an intergang firefight in the area.
• An unidentified man was shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila Wednesday. The victim was found near the corner of Bulevar Constitucion and Calle Ramos Arizpe shot several times in the head.
• Six unidentified individuals were shot to death and four others were wounded in two separate shootings in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon Thursday, according to the Mexican news daily Milenio
  • A youth was shot to death near the corner of calles Nepenta and Cabezada in the Fomerrey 112 colony.
  • Five youths were shot to death and four others were wounded near the intersection of calles Heliotropo and Nepenta in the Fomerrey 115 colony. Reports say at least one of the victims was in possession of a hand grenade.
• An unidentified man was found shot to death in his home in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon Wednesday. The victim was in a residence near the intersection of calles Tuito and Atoya in the La Noria colony shot in the chest.

From the Never-Play-With-Guns Department

An unidentified undercover Juarez municipal police agent shot and wounded an armed suspect in an armed robbery attempot Monday. Five suspects enetred a Del Rio convenience store near the corner of Calle Tunes and Bulevar Zaragoza in the Oasis Revolución colony and demanded money and beer.

As they attempted to get away, an undercover police officer shot one of the suspects, as the others escaped capture. The weapon the wounded suspect was carrying turned out to be a toy gun.