The Cost of Haircuts in Chihuahua

Follow up to the post by Chris Covert:

Five men were killed by gunfire by an armed commando in the streets of neighboring Barrio de Londres just south of the city of Chihuahua.

The violent incident happened on the streets of J.J. Calvo and 39th where the armed group entered a beauty salon located in the neighborhood.

Two of the sicarios gunned down three men who were inside the business, two of them that were sitting waiting to be served, and the third who was cutting hair.

Two other men who were in the salon managed to briefly escape, but were slain by a third man waiting outside leaving their bodies on the street.

The sicarios fled Immediately disappearing into the streets in two vehicles.

The event created panic in the neighborhood and witnesses called authorities to report the execution.

Police officers of various departments were mobilized immediately to the scene, and on arrival, cordoned off the area to keep onlookers from contaminating the scene and started their investigation.

At the scene authorities were able to find several shell casings of a 9mm caliber weapon.

To date the victims have not been identified, but they appeared to be very young.

Also in the city three mantas (blankets with messages) commonly used by organized crime were left early in the morning in various part of the city.

The blankets were found during the first hours of the day, the first one on at the pedestrian bridge located on Tecnológico Avenue that intersects José María Mary, the second was found at Vialidad los Nogales on the street Sosa Vera and the third was on the pedestrian bridge on Avenida Pacheco and JJ Calvo avenue.

One of the banners read: "What is up, are you all going to continue killing innocent people like the ones from 'La Quinta Banda' responsible Javier Hernandez the garlic clove and the brothers of El Flaco Saigeiro, I will give the information you seek, Manuel Salas, but you hide them like you have the enemy in your house and never give details of them because you have them bought. Fucking Governor."