Violence erupts in Juárez after alleged hit man slain
The slaying of an alleged hit man may have set off a string of drug cartel attacks this weekend in a poor neighborhood of southeast Juárez.
Different shootings, including a massacre of seven, and a kidnapping unfolded Saturday in the city plagued by violence. Two of the attacks occurred in Carlos Castillo Peraza, a neighborhood of dirt roads and unfinished homes protected with wood pallets.
Many residents feared the attacks erupted because of the killing of Juan Manuel Escobedo, 42, known in the neighborhood as “El Mouse.” Escobedo, who police previously tied to the Juárez drug cartel, is not the suspected target of the recent massacre of 15 people in Horizontes del Sur, also nicknamed “El Mouse.”
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In other parts of Juárez, violence continued during the weekend, killing at least 24 people.
Two police officers were killed Sunday morning in the parking lot of a mall. Blanca Jessica Martínez Puentes, 22, and César Augusto Martínez Hernández, 25, were on duty at the time gunmen attacked them, said Chihuahua state police.
A 45-year-old man, Julián Espinoza Estrada, was stoned to death Sunday in Barreales, a small town in the Juárez Valley.
A dismembered body was found Saturday morning in south Juárez. Police found three black bags: one with the head of an unidentified man, another one with the arms and legs chopped off and a third one with the torso.