More Mexican Mayhem: Juarez Edition
2011-12-11
Posted by: badanov
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11 die in Juarez and Chihuahua
A total of 11 individuals were killed in drug and gang related violence in Chihuahua state over the last two days, according to Mexican news accounts.
- Two young men were shot to death in Juarez Friday night. The attack took place at a residence near the intersection of calles Angora and Esmodena in the Jose Marti colony. Three men were present at the attack when armed suspects dismounted from vehicles and attacked them. One of the dead was identified as Carlos Alexis. All three were known soccer players.
- An unidentified man in his 40s was shot to death in Juarez Thursday night. The shooting took place near the intersection of Calle Jalisco and Boulevard Zaragoza in the Prados de Salvarcar colony.
- Four unidentified members of a family were shot to death Thursday night in Juarez. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Montes Urales and Sierra de Juarez in La Cuesta neighborhood. Reports are two of the victims were under 18 years old, and that at least one member had witnessed an earlier shooting.
- An unidentified armed suspect was shot to death by ministerial police agents in Juarez Thursday. The suspect had been leading the police agents in a vehicle pursuit when he crashed his Oldsmobile 20 meters into a ravine. Reports say the suspect was shot to death as he emerged from his crashed vehicle. The agents were part of a Chihuahua state attorney general (PGE) anti-kidnapping unit.
- Two unidentified men were found shot to death in Juarez Friday. The victims were found near the intersection of calles Francisco Gonzalez Bocanegra and Ricardo Solis, stripped naked to the waist. Both victims had been tortured.
- One unidentified armed suspect and a municipal police agent were shot and wounded in a botched kidnapping and subsequent pursuit. Police agents responded to a call of a shooting on calle Rancho Mesteño de Pradera Dorada. A suspect vehicle was intercepted near the intersection of avenidas Vicente Guerrero and Jaime Bermudez, where one police agent was shot and wounded. The suspects abandoned their vehicle, inside which where police found a kidnap victim. The pursuit continued through a business sector containing textile manufacturing shops and ended at the Recinto dela Oracion cemetery, where four suspects surrendered. One suspect had been hit by gunfire.
- An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Friday night. The victim was found in a vacant lot in Campestre colony, shot six times.
- An unidentified man was shot to death and two female companions were wounded in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Friday night. Alberto Aviña Guerrero, 33, died at the intersection of calles Cantera and San Felipe where armed suspects fired on the trio as they were travelling aboard a Nissan Murano SUV. Unspecified semi-automatic rifles were used in the attack.