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More Mexican Mayhem
2011-09-29
Posted by: badanov

14 die in northern Mexico

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A total of 14 individuals were killed in drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican states, including two suspected kidnappers shot to death by Sonora state police agents in Nogales Wednesday afternoon.

• An unidentified couple was found shot to death at a remote location near the Jardin de Orientes colony in eastern Juarez Wednesday morning. Reports say the victims were kidnapped before they were killed.


• Three individuals were shot to death in Zona Centro of Chihuahua,Chihuahua Wednesday morning. Two of the victims, a woman identified as Norma Silvia Ortiz Munoz, 41, and another youth were killed on the scene. The third victim later died while receiving medical attention. Reports say armed suspects travelling aboard a pickup truck shot the victims.


• An unidentified man was shot to death in Juarez Wednesday. The victim was at an auto repair shop on Bulevar Zaragoza at about 1330 hrs when he was shot by armed suspectss.


• Three unidentified indivduals were shot to death at a residence in Juarez Wednesday. The shooting took place near the intersection of calles Coquena and Tildio in the Granjas de Chapultepec colony where armed suspects entered the residence and killed three occupants inside. Reports say this shooting and another just minutes before at a garage nearby were unrelated.


• One unidentified armed suspect was wounded in a shootout between Chihuahua state police agents and criminal suspects. The shooting took place near the intersection of Calle Mitla and Avenida de las Torres, where police agents were fired on by suspected extortionists who were travelling aboard a Nissan sedan and a Ford Explorer SUV. Two other suspects were arrested.


• A presumed drug dealer was shot to death at his residence in Hermosillo, Sonora Tuesday. Joel Martin de la Rosa Pino, AKA El Willy, 19, was shot at the doorway to his home on Calle Pedregal where armed suspects travelling aboard a compact sedan dismounted the vehicle at about 0310 hrs then shot the victim once in the chest with a 9mm handgun.


• Two unidentified kidnapping suspects were killed in a gunfight with Sonoran state police agents in Nogales, Sonora Wednesday afternoon. The shootout took place at a safe house on Calle Taboso west in the Luis Donaldo Colosio II colony where police agents were dispatched on a report of a kidnapping. An unidentified kidnapping victim was rescued, and several firearms were seized following the gunfight.


• An unidentified man was shot to death in an apparent mugging aboard a bus in Tijuana, Baja California Wednesday. The bus was on Bulevar Salinas when two armed suspects demanded money from the victim and then shot him.