Bloody Weekend in TJ: 9 Murdered, One Man Shot Dead in Broad Daylight on the Boardwalk of Playas Tijuana

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: ElPiñero y Zeta

Zeta writing

In different parts of the city, nine people were killed, mostly by firearms. With these facts add 1,419 homicides for the tally of violent homicides of the year, according to statistics of the Attorney General's Office in the State.

First, on Thursday, August 15, around 06:37 a.m., the calcined corpse of a male was reported, on a stretch of dirt on General López Isita Street in the Alfonso Ballesteros neighborhood.

An hour later in the Brigada Bracamontes street in the Pedregal neighborhood of Santa Julia, the lifeless body of a woman, identity unknown, was located. The victim had gunshot wounds.

On Saturday and the first minutes of Sunday there were six violent deaths, including the body of a woman dismembered inside a suitcase, in addition to three injured people, and a person carrying drugs.

The State Attorney General's Office (PGJE) reported that the woman's dismembered body, around 50 years old, was found inside a suitcase, on Roberto de la Madrid Avenue, in the Cañón del Sainz neighborhood.

A man of approximately 30 years was killed on the boardwalk of Playas de Tijuana, in front of hundreds of people who enjoyed the shows and events, during Sunday afternoon.

According to information from the State Attorney General's Office, the events occurred around 3:35 p.m., when two men shot at the victim and fled to the ground.

The subject was assisted by lifeguard personnel and municipal agents, just in front of the stage that is in the arches, but was declared lifeless. The victim had injuries caused by a firearm in the head.

A man identified as Alberto Alatorre Avila, 50, was found dead with signs of strangulation inside an abandoned vehicle on Third Street in front of the number 251 in the Libertad neighborhood in the lower part. The report originated at 08:25 hours.

After noon at the General Hospital, a woman, identity unknown, died after the puncture wounds she was given.

Later around 20:04 hours in a state of rot, with neck injuries and duct tape on the head, a corpse was located inside a suitcase in a vacant lot located on Roji Guide Street in the Buena Vista Annex neighborhood.

At 9:45 p.m. on Avenida de las Américas in the El Refugio subdivision, the body of a stranger was found, who had head, chest and back injuries.

With gunshot wounds to the head, the lifeless body of a stranger was found in Josefina Rendón Parra street in the Nueva Tijuana neighborhood.

The first minutes of this Friday, the 16th, the one named Roberto Carlos Morales Trujillo, 39, was killed, when he was located on Union Canyon Street in the Unión neighborhood.

Finally, in the body of a stranger with various traces of violence, he was found in Mazatlán Street and Boulevard 2000.