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5, Luis Alfonso Rivera Villa, 35, second in command of CIPOL, and his bodyguard, Jesús García Rodríguez, 25, shot to death in the Third Burocrat neighborhood . . . February 27, José Guadalupe Cruz Cisneros of the mounted police, executed in Colonia Plutarco Elias Calles. . . . March 1, state police agent Luis Alonso Marrufo Armendáriz, riddled with AK-47 rifle fire . . . his partner Valentín Ramos Díaz injured but survives . . . March 2, Infantry Second Captain Ricardo Fuentes García, assassinated in his vehicle on the Av. Tecnologico. . . . March 9, municipal policeman Víctor Alejandro Gómez Márquez assassinated by an armed group. Commander Ismael Villegas Frausto and two bodyguards, Mario Alberto Arámbula Rodríguez and Moisés Casas Camargo, injured. . . . March 14, Lieutenant Mario Moraz Cevallos executed in his vehicle in the Colonia Bellavista after leaving work. . . . March 19, Luis Humberto Rivera Gamboa, 37, machine-gunned leaving work at the Av. De las Torres . . . March 20, municipal agent Oscar Campolla Saucedo, 37, executed within 150 meters of the Aldama Station. . . . March 23, municipal policeman Alejandro Martínez Casas and his 8-year-old son, Alejandro Martínez Cruz, executed in the Colonia Margaritas. . . . April 22, three municipal policemen shot at the Autozone store on Av. 16 de Septiembre but only Abraham Carrillo Carrillo, 25, dies . . . Commander Felipe Galindo Reyes, 35, and José Amador Alarcon Rodriguez, 25, survive the attack. May 5, state policewoman Berenice García Corral, 31, assassinated on her porch . . . May 6, municipal police Captain Mario Saúl Peña López, 39, shot to death in his vehicle near the Cuauhtemoc police station.

El Diario, Ciudad Juárez, May 10, 2008

Six homicides occurred between Thursday night and Friday afternoon, bringing to 29 the number of murders in the first 9 days of May. In addition, 3 municipal police agents, including the recently named director of Babicora station, were injured in an execution attempt. . . . The latest trail of murder begins after the assassination of two taxi drivers in the central city and a man in San Lorenzo, followed by Edgar Adalberto Ortega Cantu, 25, found dead in Av. Henequen, shot in his car at 9:50 P.M. Thursday after a traffic incident involving an armed commando, a 1997 Mitsubishi Montero and a 1993 Crown Victoria. . . . Edgar Adalberto . . . thought to be an innocent person had the bad luck to stray into the intersection as the shoot-out erupted. . . . Second homicide, Gustavo Carbajal, 40, 2:30 A.M. yesterday, shot six times by two masked men inside the La Finca bar . . . third incident, 12:00 yesterday at the Alonso butcher shop in Colonia Lomas de San José . . . two men entered the butcher shop to rob it and shot the Alonso brothers who had refused to turn over the money, injuring Ubaldo Alonso Trancoso, 45, and killing José Francisco, 40. At 12:30, another murder in the interior of a house on a private street in Vistas del Valle, unidentified victim shot 12 times, body found face down in the living room. At 12:55, Juan Nicolás Ríos Alderete, 26, assassinated in his car on the sidewalk in front of the primary school in Colonia Morelos after being “hunted” . . . at the scene members of the victim’s family attacked photographer Salvador Hernandez. . . . At 5:41, Jesus Garcia, 30-35, found face down next to a white van for sale, near the corner of Jacinto Benavente and Gabriel Garcia Marquez streets, several bullet wounds to the head and face . . . he was a parking attendant and washed cars for a living.

El Paso Times, May 10, 2008

A gun battle on the Avenida Juárez tourist strip left two men dead and wounded five others, including three bicycle police officers, as part of a resurgence of violence in Juárez. After the shooting, a man with a gunshot wound to the torso stumbled to get medical help on the U.S. side of the international bridge.

The violence, possibly linked to a war between drug cartels and government forces across Mexico, continued Friday with a double homicide in the town of Palomas and an attempt on the