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More Mexican Mayhem
2011-06-07
Posted by: badanov

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39 Die in Northern Mexico

A total of 39 individuals were murdered in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican states including a Chihuahua, Chihuahua police commander ambushed Thursday.

• Two unidentified men were shot to death in to separate crimes, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka..
  • A man was shot to death in Juarez Wednesday. The shooting took place at a business near the intersection of calles Garambullo and Zafra in the Revolucion colony where armed suspects travelling aboard a vehicle shot the victim.
  • A man was shot at his residence near the intersection of calles Quinta Caballo and Quinta Granada in the Granadas Residencial colony shot more than 50 times.
• The former director of a Low Risk prison in Chihuahua, Chihuahua was shot to death Wednesday morning. Fernando Oropesa Oaxaca was in front of his residence in Dale colony when he was found dead.
• An inmate at a prison in Chihuahua, Chihuahua was found hanged Wednesday morning. Marcial Solorio Romero, 31, was found in his cell at around 0630 hrs. Solorio Romero was formerly an inmate at the same Low Risk unit that the now deceased Fernando Oropesa Oaxaca ran until it was shut down late last month. The death is currently considered a suicide.
• One police officer was shot to death while three woman and a man were wounded in an armed robbery of a bank branch in Juarez Wednesday. Armed suspects entered the bank near the intersection of calles Jilotepec and Hiedra, ordered customers on the floor and shot a Juarez municipal police officer guarding the bank, killing him and wounding four others. The suspects escaped with the money they demanded.
• A former resident of a drug rehabilitation center was shot to death Thursday morning in Chihuahua, Chihuahua. Francisco Pizaña Hernandez, 35, was in his vehicle near the intersection of bulevar El Saucito and Miguel Gomez in Los Mezquites colony when armed suspects travelling aboard a Jeep Patriot shot him. The suspects then stole the victim's Lincoln Navigator, which was found abandoned a short distance away.
• Two unidentified men were shot to death and a third wounded in a shooting in Juarez Thursday. The victims were at a residence near calle Leyes and Reforma in the Infonavit Casas Grandes colony. Three armed suspects dismounted a vehicle and fired at the victims who were in the driveway of the residence.
• A Chihuahua, Chihuahua municipal police commander was ambushed and killed Thursday in Juarez. Gerardo Hernandez was on patrol in the Camino Real colony when he was fired on by several armed suspects who were travelling in a two vehicle convoy. Following a large police mobilization, three suspects were arrested after they sought refuge in the college library in Tecnologico de Monterrey school.

"They somehow didn't look like the other students, Sarge."

• One unidentified man was shot to death and another was wounded in Chihuahua late Thursday night. The victim was at the Plaza Galerias mall on bulevar Ortiz Mena. The victim was killed inside the mall after he abandoned his Ford Lobo (F-150) pickup truck in the mall parking lot. His pursuers followed him into the mall where he was shot and killed.
• Five individuals were shot to death in three separate shootings in Juarez Saturday, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
  • Veronica Cruz, 36, was shot to death in front of her sons near the intersection of calles Cocotero and Isla Salomon in the Fronteriza Alta colony.
  • Two unidentified employees at a electrical-mechanical repair shop near the intersection of calles Waterfil and Nardos were shot to death.
  • An unidentified man and woman were shot to death while another woman was wounded in a shooting near the intersection of calles Benemerito de las Americas and Leyes de Reforma in the Infonavit Casas Grandes colony.
• A total of 15 individuals were murdered in drug and gang related violence in Chihuahua state Saturday, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
  • One unidentified youth was shot to death and two others were wounded in front of an Oxxo convenience store.
  • Three unidentified youths were executed in San Felipe colony in Chihuahua city.
  • One man was shot to death and a female with him was wounded in a shooting in the Insurgentes colony in Chihuahua city.
  • In Valle Zaragoza at Las Alemedas drive-in in three unidentified individuals were shot to death.
  • In Batopilas an unidentified man was found shot to death.
  • In Meoqui three unidentified youths were found hands bound and shot to death.
  • In Baborigame, two youths in their 20s were found shot to death.
  • On Highway 45 near Camargo, one man was found shot to death and three others were wounded inside a vehicle/
• Two unidentified youths were shot to death in Juarez Sunday. The victims were apparently hunted then shot near the intersection of calles Begonia and Bario in the Ninos Heroes colony.
• A man was shot to death and another unidentified man was wounded in a shooting in Agua Prieta, Sonora Thursday. Horacio Ochoa Estrada, 41, was shot inside a funeral home near the intersection of Calle 4th and Avenida 8th in the Centro colony.
• An Altar, Sonora police chief died Sunday of wounds he sustained in shooting in a traffic stop in Caborca, Sonora May 16th. Francisco Javier Gutierrez Moreno died Sunday in a private hospital in Hermosillo, Sonora.

  To read the Rantburg report on the shooting of Gutierrez Moreno, click here (eight item).

• An unidentified female was found dead inside a drain in a residential area of Mexicali, Baja California. The remains were wrapped in a blanket and placed in a drain between Hacienda de Castilla and Hacienda de los Portales colonies. The remains were reportedly at last 40 days old.
• A Monterrey, Nuevo Leon police officer died of wounds he sustained in a shooting Saturday night. Marco Antonio Salazar, 28, was just leaving a convenience store near the intersection of avenidas Revolucion and Jesus Cantu Leal in the Buenos Aires colony when he was shot by armed suspects who were aboard a sedan.
• Three unidentified men were shot to death in an apparent intergang shootout Saturday night in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon. The victims were near a stolen Toyota Camry near the intersection of calles Mariano Escobedo and Hector Caballero in the Valle de Huinala colony when they were shot.