State police officer killed outside her Juárez home

Aileen B. Flores
El Paso Times Staff

A Chihuahua state police officer was shot in the head and killed early Friday morning outside her Juárez home, state police reported.

Claudia Elizabeth Valdez Reyes, 27, was killed just after 5 and was found dead on the sidewalk at 1253 Plan de Ayala street, in the colonia Exhipódromo. Authorities recovered three 9mm casings at the scene.

Valdez Reyes, a crime scene investigator, started working for the state police in January, according to the Chihuahua state police report.