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El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, April 22, 2008
Three municipal police officers traveling in a gray Lincoln were shot at about 7:30 P.M. today in the parking lot of an auto parts store on Avenida 16 de Septiembre. Abraham Carrillo Carrillo, 25, died at the scene. Felipe Galindo Reyes, 36, and José Nabor Alarcón were injured. According to news archives, Captain Galindo “Z-5 Galindo” was on the list of police officers to be executed as “those who continue not believing.”
Dallas Morning News, April 24, 2008
Mexican president Felipe Calderón said that it is vital that his country receives a $1.4 billion U.S. anti-drug assistance package. “I’m not asking the United States for a favor. I’m asking for responsibility. . . . This is a shared problem that requires a shared solution.”
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, April 25, 2008
In Ciudad Juárez, reported cases of domestic violence increased to 6 per day compared to last year, when there was one complaint every 3 days, according to Municipal Public Security Statistics.
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El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, May 1, 2008
Roberto Velasco Bravo, the organized-crime-fighting chief of the Federal Police, was shot and critically wounded in Mexico City. It has not been established if the police chief resisted a robbery while driving his Ford Explorer or if it was an execution.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, May 1, 2008
MAZATLAN, Sinaloa—Three confrontations on Wednesday in Culiacán apparently between members of the Sinaloa and Juárez cartels, the Federal Police and the Mexican army left 5 dead, including State police agents Salvador Castellano Rivera and Jesús Martín Muñoz Cota.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, May 3, 2008
Even though murders in April decreased considerably compared to March, not a single perpetrator has been arrested. According to official statistics, there were 52 murders in April, 55% fewer than the 117 in March. In total, there have been 262 murders in the first four months of 2008. January—48 homicides, February—45, March—117, April 52.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, May 3, 2008
Ex-police captain, Sergio Lagarde Félix, 44, who served as bodyguard for the ex-municipal police director, Saulo Reyes, was shot to death yesterday in the Avenida Valle de Juárez. The victim had worked in several other state and Federal Police posts, most recently as chief warden of the local prison. He had resigned in January to administer a funeral business. Lagarde Félix was the second homicide in May. On May 1, Salvador Martínez Espinoza, 20, died after being shot six times near the Yáñez bridge on the Juárez-Porvenir highway.
El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, May 6, 2008
State police officer Berenice García Corral, 31, was shot 32 times by AK-47 rifle fire on the porch of her house at about 9:00 Monday night. Unofficial accounts say that the occupants of a red Dodge Ram pickup approached the house and called out. The officer was shot and killed as she opened the door of her house. The victim had worked for 7 years in the corporation and was currently assigned to the sex crimes unit of the state investigative police. So far this year, 15 security officers have been executed in Ciudad Juárez. Medical experts determined that the agent died from a brain laceration caused by gunshots to the head.
Ismael Maldonado, 20, died of gunshots received early Monday morning in the Colonia Durango. He had been walking with two others when he was shot from a white Lincoln.
Two others shot near the entrance of the State Public Security Agency were identified as Lorenzo Núñez Aguayo and Agustín Navarrete Damián. They were traveling in a gray Crown Victoria when they began to be pursued by an armed commando in a late-model white pickup and were shot by AK-47 rifle fire as the vehicles reached the installations of State Office of Public