By Chivis Martinez for Borderlandbeat
The slaughter
began at 9PM Friday night a group of armed men entered the El Colorado Bar
located in Colonia Granjas. Shooting from both the left and right sides of the
bar, the action appeared to be indiscriminate as the gunmen opened fire on customers,
servers, bartenders and musicians.
In vain
people dove under tables or used chairs as shields from the large caliber
bullets. 16 people were killed
leaving a flood of bleeding bodies everywhere of those killed and injured.
Unofficial
reports indicate that 5 vehicles with 10 gunmen were parked outside the bar, witnesses say the gunmen
appeared to be very young minors.
The shooting occurred in the northern Mexico city of Chihuahua, the dead included two journalists, prosecuting attorneys said Saturday.
"They
have been identified as Hector Javier Salinas Aguirre and Javier Moya Munoz,
who were journalists from the city of Chihuahua with many years working at
radio stations," said a source from the Chihuahua state attorney's office.
Nine other
people died violently between Friday night and early Saturday in nearby
communities, where gang drug violence is common.
They included
four others from the city of Chihuahua; four from Ciudad Juarez, across from El
Paso, Texas; and one from the town of Madera.
Hector Salinas,
who for years was a radio reporter and former press chief for the opposition
Institutional Revolutionary Party, most recently worked as director of the
local news site Futuro.mx, officials said.
Javier Moya,
a journalist and veterinarian, was chief news officer for a local radio station
and recently was working as a press spokesman for the city of Chihuahua.
Witnesses
said that in the attack Friday night about seven heavily armed men burst into a
bar called La Colorada and demanded to know the whereabouts of two or three
other men.
After getting
no response, they opened fire, police said.
The massacre
follows a similar shooting February 4, when an armed group burst into another
Chihuahua bar and opened fire, killing nine people. They included five members
of a band and a policewoman.
Authorities have not established a motive.
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sources used:http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2012/04/13-die-in-bar-massacre-in-chihuahua.html
El Diario de Chihuahua
El Heraldo de Chihuahua
La Rojo Chih and AP
Good to see Chivis back at it
ReplyDeleteThank you..another few days and I should have my strength back....Saludos
ReplyDeletehate to see innocent people dead. This a fuckn war not crime.
ReplyDeleteSo were these people totally innocent or involved with a cartel at all?
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of pussy are you when shooting innocent unarmed people? You are really the lowest of the lowest...
ReplyDeleteIMO..it looks like they were there thinking that the two men whose names they shouted were there, and those were the intended victims. The gunmen were very young, teens and trigger happy. I have not heard of any victims having narco connection....paz, chivis
ReplyDelete"Appeared to be very young minors",,,that right there tells you who the killers were,most likely members of the Sinaloa Cartels Gente nueva.
ReplyDeleteHeating Cities is all Chapo knows how to do.
This is sad very very sad. God let these victims souls rest n heaven with Jesus.
ReplyDeleteI read on another blog that some of these people had criminal records. Thus some one knew something and everybody paid the price.
ReplyDeleteUsa+ euorope drug consumption has led to the murders of the inocent.
@Anonymous 10:50AM
ReplyDeleteWhich blog? I want to see that..thanks, Chivis
insight on how LA LINEA still controls Juarez or at least trying to keep. http://www.informados.com.mx/not_detalle.php?id_n=54141
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