15-Year-Old Student Among 4 Americans Shot Dead in Mexico Attacks
- Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:38am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexican authorities said Monday.
Chihuahua state prosecutors’ spokesman Arturo Sandoval said Edgar Lopez, 35, of El Paso, Texas, was killed Sunday along with two Mexican men when gunmen opened fire on a group standing outside a house.
On Saturday, a 26-year-old U.S. woman and an American boy were slain shortly after crossing an international bridge from El Paso. Giovanna Herrera and Luis Araiza, 15, were shot to death along with a Mexican man traveling with them just after 11 a.m., Sandoval said.
Sandoval said authorities also identified a 24-year-old woman killed Friday inside a tortilla shop as Lorena Izaguirre, a U.S. citizen and El Paso resident. A Mexican man was also found dead in the store.
Sandoval did not provide any information about possible motive in any of the slayings.
U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley confirmed three of the killings but did not have any information about Izaguirre. He said officials had been in touch with the victims’ families but offered no other details.
Ciudad Juarez has become one of the world’s deadliest cities amid a turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels. More than 2,000 people have been killed this year in the city, which is across the border from El Paso.
Also Monday, federal police said they arrested a U.S. man accused of being a member of the Aztecas gang, whose members work as hitmen for the Juarez cartel and operate on both sides of the border. Angel Martinez, 24, was arrested Saturday in Ciudad Juarez when he was traveling with another gang member, the department said.
Elsewhere, three city police officers were gunned down early Monday in a drive-by shooting as they patrolled the heart of Acapulco’s upscale tourist district, authorities said.
Another officer was wounded, according to a statement from the Public Safety Department in southern Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located.
The officers were patrolling the Puerto Marques area around 1 a.m. when they were ambushed by suspects shooting assault rifles from inside a car, police said.
Violence continues to escalate in the Pacific resort city, days after Mayor Jose Luis Avila Sanchez warned people to stay indoors after dark. Ten other people were killed between Sunday and Monday around the area. Authorities also were trying to determine whether a burned corpse found in a car was the body of a Canadian businessman who disappeared last week.
Meanwhile, the remains of seven people were found Sunday in a mass grave in Nogales, on the Arizona border. Mayor Jose Angel Hernandez said a family walking near the site noticed what appeared to be part of a body sticking up in a riverbed. Officers recovered six bodies and a severed head in the grave. A seventh headless body was found nearby.
In the border city of Tijuana, state police seized more than 14 tons (13 metric tons) of marijuana in two vehicles at a house in the same neighborhood where gunmen killed 13 people at a drug rehab center 10 days ago.
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Associated Press reporters Sergio Flores in Acapulco and Felipe Larios in Hermosillo contributed to this article.
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Comments (77)
Spookytruck
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:54amWhen you walk into a mine field with a crowd, expect a few mines to explode. Planning a vacation in Mexico? You must be dumber than a rock. I wouldn’t go there if I won an all expense vacation there. I’m far from being a coward, but I wouldn’t run through a mine field either. It’s called “using the brain that G-d gave you.” We need to secure our borders and we need to do it NOW!
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:50amFinish the fence electrify it with armed gun towers,dig a mote fill it with gators,fly predator drones overhead,triple boarder control,rotate all guard units constantly to back up the boarder control .mine the land around the fence .Can we stop this crap YES WE CAN!!!
Report Post »REBELWITHACAUSE
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 1:53pmDRATTASTIC IS A LITTLE DRASTIC, don’t ya think? HAHAHAHAHA
Report Post »… I’d like to add one thing… then let‘s make a movie with all this as the ’set’.
Free_Thinker
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:47amIt’s time to get serious in Juarez! They say at night the streets are owned by the gangs, I say they put a curfew in place and put up some gunships at night, anything moves they take it down with extreme prejudice!
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:33amWhen is our president going to declare war on these terrorist. They are killing American citizens. We need to put an end to this now!!! It will only get worse.
Report Post »TAMUOne
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:20pmAre you kidding? He’s been too busy campaigning to run the country.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:26amJanet Clownitano, are you going to use this to convince us that the border is safer and more secure than it ever has been?!
Report Post »billwas22
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:24amOne of our own, a Canadian, was abducted in Acapulco, murdered and he and his rental car set on fire. It is not only along your southern border but from what I gather your government does not take it seriously. Nothing much happening on your northern border. Why are you not acting in the south?
Report Post »JackBoot101
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:39amYou are right about our government not taking this thing seriously. Both the Bush and the Obama administrations have had their heads so far up their backsides on this issue because they either fear or covet the Hispanic vote. We need to got our borders secured NOW.
I realize that only the peaceful hard working Hispanics are crossing our borders to find the work that Americans wont do and that is why we don’t have huge Hispanic gang problems in many, many cities and not only in border towns. Not.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:17amWhy are Americans still going to Mexico???? People keep your butts home, PLEASE.
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:36amYour are missing the point. Just keep your head in the sand long enough and they will be in your back yard.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:48amJust what makes you think my head is in the sand. All America knows that Mexico is extremely violent and dangerous so why put yourself into harms way. Answer that. I know that our borders need to be secured and we need to take “illegal aliens” extremely serious but these people weren’t killed in America.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:15amWhile I don’t like the death of U.S. citizens, these people knew the risks of going to Mexico. They need to just close the border crossings, and put more troops on the borders to stop the illegal crossings. But the only way to stop the illegal crossings is that we will have to get just a deadly as Mexico. Only then will they figure out that it won’t do them any good to come here.
Report Post »Rob_M
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:14amHow long before their spring break industry collapses? Then what will they do?
Report Post »Knightofhopex
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:07ameVerify. eVerify. eVerify. And maybe a gigantic wall. And a better immigration system. Oh, and a smaller government.
We shouldn’t be surprised by anything of this anyways. We’re asking the people that made this mess to clean it up. Let’s just fire their butts. :/
Report Post »Whole Nine Yards
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:01amWe need to send in the Marines and secure our border and our citizens.
This namby-pamby approach to safe-guarding Americans and our assets is total crap and an insult to all real Americans..
We need to do what Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan would have done…
Report Post »Raven249
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:59amYou know, I thin it’s about time the government applied a certain demotivational poster to the border security.
Report Post »http://verydemotivational.memebase.com/2010/05/09/demotivational-posters-border-patrol/
chickenlittle
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:57amWhere are the parents, who would allow a 15-year-old into a war zone? Anchor baby maybe… parents can’t go themselves? I lived in AZ a long time and this was common… illegal parents can’t go back and forth, so they send the kids.
Report Post »SSBN_VET
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:56amIt’s about time we send in the United States Marines to put a stop to this crap. Solve all of these problems in one massive swoop and return Mexico to the people; Solving the drug problem, the murder problem and our illegal immigration problem all at one time.
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:41amAmen. What’s going on sounds a little like Texas in the 1860s-70s when the Texas Rangers (and other ‘good guy’ gunslingers) faught against Mexican and American outlaws. Doing what SSBN_VET suggests will take care of the whole shebang.
Report Post »Race
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:52amTime for the U.S. government to get off its swivel chair spread and get the fence built. Change the ROE along the border for the Border Patrol and any snuffies we send there to help. As to traveling/vacationing in Mexico, you’d better be wearing kevlar skivvies. And Juarez needs nuked.
Report Post »benditlikebeck
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:51amWe need to legalize drugs already to take the power out of these cartel’s hands.
Report Post »SSBN_VET
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:13amsoros solution… oxymoron
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:27amLegalizing drugs will only bring the Cartels here to take back their profits. Besides then with everyone high on drugs the would not want to work. I am sure that you wouldn’t want a surgeon operating on you while he high on drugs. I am sure that you wouldn’t want a policemen/woman wanting to stop to get a snack before helping you after an accident. Because he/she has the munchies. Legalizing drugs will cause a lot more problems that it would solve. If you want to take the power from the Cartel’s then all you have to do is quit using pot.
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:06pmLegalizing drugs and regulating and taxing it would eliminate all the drug cartels. That is what is needed.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:51amAnd Obama wants the animals to freely cross our borders? Give them Amnesty?
A better idea is fortify the border, bring our troops home from Europe, Japan, Korea and etc. and use them to protect our borders. Keep this drug infested rif raf outside the USA.
Americans should wake up and boycott Mexico until the good people rise up and take their country back from corrupa politicians and drug thugs.
Report Post »REBELWITHACAUSE
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:16pmThe drug cartels have crept across the border and killed and kidnapped our own people… and they are getting away with it. It’s mind-boggling. Why couldn’t we get lucky enough to have them kidnap Obama and his family… take them back to Mexico, put them to work as slave labor in their rat-infested squalor… And THEN… shut down the border once and for all… they can’t come back, and we don’t go there. Enough said… THIS would put a halt to a LOT of crap!
Report Post »Star Spangled
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:51amThe border should be the first issue the 112 congress takes on in Jan.
Report Post »iheartusa
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 3:18pmCheck out http://www.numbersusa.com. It is a free organization where you can tell your elected officials in the White House, through free faxes, how you feel about immigration issues. You can also see where they stand and how they vote on those issues. I have found it to be very informative. God Bless America!
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:50amwhen is this government gonna wake up & declare Mexico a danger zone to all Americans ?!?!?!?!?!?!
Report Post »Slevdog1
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:49amOf course, it is the fault of anyone who want to truly secure the border. Thanks to the ineptitude of our government!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 1:16pmWhat are you talking about? Here in Az the govt put up the signs telling US citizens to stay out of US territory. What else can we expect? Poor, Poor BO and the rest of them, under so much pressure.
Maybe they should get thier collective asses down here and see what is going on before they start spouting off at the mouth about all these poor illegals just coming here to work. We have crime from those illegals that include everything from petty theft to sawing peoples heads off. that’s OK though ’cause we got the signs…
Report Post »dianr43
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:06pmbuild the wall and bring on the troops
Report Post »libertyordeath87
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:48amAre we sure they were Americans and not illegals who have been here for 25 years and anchor babies? Why would an American cross over into the most dangerous city in Mexico? To visit relatives?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:52amGood point, they went to visit Granny.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:28amMaybe they thought the border was another inconvenient truth.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:48amAny American has to be out of their mind to be in Mexico now a days…..
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:45amWhy on earth would any sane American go to Mexico (!) for any reason? Oh, Joy, that offer of the free vacation still stands – even had offers to drive you to the border. Where are you, Joy, when people are dying – I can’t hear you………
Report Post »dianr43
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:05pmUS should ban all travel to Mexico
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:44amWhy would anyone venture into that war zone?
Report Post »cubber
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:45amGREAT question.
Report Post »Beeree
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:53amYou don’t have to go to Mexico to be in the war zone, they’ve brought the war accross our border and our elected officials have sold out for votes and financial backing by groups that benefit from the slave labor they get. Vote them out of office.
Report Post »cubber
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:40amWe don’t need a fence. Just a militia.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:57amWe need to shut down the border completely, milita, military, trade, crossings and commerce. Cut it all off completely no matter how much they howl at us about it; it is still OUR sovreign territory despite what the administration or any world court says.
What these bloody minded cartels need to be reminded of is why Americans are often armed, if they cross in force, then let them go back in bodybags.
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:07am@Snow
How about taking some of our overseas troops that other countries no longer want there anyway and posting them all along the border. I gaurantee you that would solve the problem, especially if they are given discretion to defend themselves and our border at all costs. I am fed up with the useless loss of American lives to these Godless pieces of trash!!
Report Post »sodun
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:10amUnfortunately it looks like that‘s what we’re going to HAVE to do, if we want to keep our sovereignty and our citizens safe. I suppose it’s partly our fault for not kicking out the Progressives sooner. I predict the problem will never be resolved unless we militarize our southern border.
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We will NEVER have true immigration reform until the border is secure. And THAT’S the reason (IMHO) that the Progressives fight border control so viciously. What good is deportation if the deportee comes RIGHT BACK ACROSS?
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And now the Progressives are even bolder trying to gain power when they fight against simple common sense things like showing an ID to vote (ie. why they want non-citizens to vote in our elections)
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And the lame steam media ignore comment like this because…
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Hmmm…smells like…RAT!
DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:11amI blamed the backpackers who though Iran was a good place to wonder around like hippies. Now i’m getting to that point with Mexico. Anyone who goes down there now, it’s your own fault if you get shot. We all know that it’s a war zone down there and the gunman have no morals
Report Post »BlueCollared
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:12amI say we vote for president the first governor to ask for armed civilians to help secure the border.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:45amSecure the border, limiting the amount of drugs that flows north. When the cartels have no reason to control drug routes along the border, I’m guessing they will move elsewhere, perhaps even leave Mexico all together. I’m guessing cartels would end up moving into Central and South America to avoid starving to death in the useless Mexican economy.
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:23pmMexico bans the private ownership of firearms, leaving a nation of victims to the cartel murder lottery where on average one in every family is a winner. Citizens in Mexico have a choice: Hope they don’t become the latest statistic or arm themselves and take back their country since the government has lost control of their primary accountability to protect their citizens.
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 12:39pmWe need to close the border, round up the illegals put them on cargo planes fly them to afganistain. Give them a 9mm and a bottle of water when they get off the plane.
Report Post »NFYRx
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 2:34pmThey are in cntrol of the southern 1/3 of Arizona. We are all next. I am ashamed of my government.
Report Post »NorthGeorgiaCatholicPatriot
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 3:35pmI agree, it’s a battlefield.. In the late 90′s I had work in El Paso and foolishly drove over to Juarez, FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES.. I took one look around and did a quick U-turn.. I am no coward (ex-cop etc) but I am not a fool either. Even back then the place was madness. Only someone stupid enough to go hiking in IRAN would have stayed…..
Report Post »Chriztina
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:43pmI agree with SnowLeopard, we should shut down the borders. Especially in Arizona.
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