Tijuana: 153 murders this January

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from ZetaTijuana

                   

In the last 20 hours in Tijuana, 12 people were murdered in different incidents, with a total of 153 victims so far this January. 

The first report occurred around 07:05 hours on Sunday, January 20, indicating that a lifeless person with gunshot wounds was located in a vacant lot on the Cristóbal Colón ramp of the Colina de Cortes neighborhood. The victim, unidentified, was approximately 30 years old. 

Then, due to contusive blows, the death of Roberto Echeverría Flores, 49, who was injured in Cañón Palma, but declared lifeless in the General Hospital, was reported. 

Inside a home located on Club de Leones Street of the La Gloria neighborhood, Benito Carrillo Bañuelos, 49, was shot dead. According to witnesses, three subjects between 20 and 25 years old are the alleged perpetrators of the homicide. 

A 55-year-old stranger was killed by gunshots on Isla Coronado Street in the Buena Vista Mar Fraccionamiento. 

Lying on a dirt road on Mazatlan Street in Ejido Francisco Villa, an unidentified 25-year-old was found dead with bullet wounds. 

A young man of around 20 years was found, killed by gunfire in Camino Vecinal heading to Rancho Las Carreteras in Praderas de la Gloria. 

Inside a building playing slot machine, a man was murdered. The building is located on Pedro Amaya Avenue in the Obrera neighborhood. 

In an address located in Valle Redondo number 7 of the Parajes del Valle subdivision, two people of the male sex were shot. The victims remain unknown.

A lifeless nude body with bullet injuries in the leg and right hand and thorax was located on Enrique Labastida Street in the San Ángel neighborhood. The deceased was around 30 years old. 

At 22 minutes of this Monday, January 21, the burned corpses of two men were located in the trunk of a fully burned truck. The macabre discovery occurred on Jalisco Street in front of number 22203 of the El Pípila neighborhood. 

In none of the incidents injured people are reported.