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The body of Víctor Alejandro Gómez Márquez was left in the passenger seat until after 11:00 in the morning, when it was taken away by the Forensic Medical Service.
The hospital was placed under heavy security with armed police on all sides of the building.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 10, 2008
A newspaper vendor was killed yesterday around noon by a gunshot to the
head, the motive as yet unknown. This killing brought yesterday’s murder total to 17. The man was identified by relatives as Job Abdiel Acosta Medina, 24.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 10, 2008
A woman’s body was found Sunday night in the passenger seat of a pickup truck, apparently dead from a laceration to her liver caused by a beating. She was identified as Rosa Lopez Moreno, 47.
According to witnesses, Lopez Moreno was traveling with her boyfriend, Catalino Mendez Ramirez, 35, and her daughter. The daughter reported that both adults had been drinking and began to argue. The girl went into a Laundromat and when she returned Mendez Ramirez told her that her mother had fallen asleep and drove to her home. The girl realized that the woman showed no signs of life and so she asked for help from the police and paramedics, who pronounced her dead. Mendez was detained for interrogation.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 11, 2008
The bodies of six gunmen killed Saturday in the shoot-out in Colonia Rosario may end up in a common grave as the state has not claimed the bodies, which remain under guard by the Mexican army.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 11, 2008
FALLEN MUNICIPAL POLICE OFFICER, VÍCTOR ALEJANDRO GÓMEZ MÁRQUEZ, TO BE BURIED WITH HONORS TODAY
“It is the most fearful pain anyone can feel, to lose a son is the most difficult,” said the mother of the fallen officer. She said that her youngest son had lived here in her house with his wife and daughter, that he had an honest way of life, that he had not used his job to make money on the side, that he had not been able to afford his own house.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 11, 2008
TWO DEAD, ONE INJURED IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS
Juan Luis Ortega Herrera, 16, was shot to death at about 11:00 Monday night from a moving car near the corner of Francisco Martín López and Emiliano Zapata streets.
Jorge Soto Sandoval was killed at about 1:00 in the afternoon in the Colonia Torreon at Joe’s Sandwich Shop, where he worked.
Daniel Huerta Carrillo, 17, was injured by gunfire at the corner of José María Pino Suárez and Pablo López streets. The victim was taken to the Santa Maria clinic and his condition was stable.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 11, 2008
Transit Police Lieutenant Carlos Adrián de Anda Doncel, freed the night of March 5 after being held and tortured for 48 hours by an armed commando, has left the city and his current whereabouts are unknown.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 12, 2008
Officer Víctor Alejandro Gómez Márquez, executed last Sunday in an ambush . . . was buried yesterday afternoon. . . . The Secretariat of Municipal Public Security had publicized the hour of the religious service, nevertheless, the family rejected the presence of the media for unknown motives.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 12, 2008
Blanca Edna Páez Orozco, 22, died and her brother, Abel Páez Orozco, 20, was injured yesterday afternoon in a house fire in the Finca Bonita neighborhood. The mentally disabled victims were tied to a bed when the fire broke out. Initial reports said that the sister and brother had been playing with matches. Their father, Abel Páez, 65, had tied the victims to the bed in the morning.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, March 13, 2008
The Secretariat of Municipal Public Security reported that three persons died violently yesterday in less than