Tijuana, Baja California: Minor Killed, 3 Women Injured Following Armed Attack In Fuentes del Valle Community

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

Apparently one of the victims, moments before the aggression, argued with a drug dealer

An 11 year old minor died and three women were injured after an armed aggression was registered in the Fuentes del Valle neighborhood in Tijuana, the afternoon of this Friday, December 24.

Data obtained by Zeta indicates that around 5:30 p.m. a call was reported to the emergency center that on the old road that leads to Tecate, near the entrance, the sound of gunfire was heard. 

Municipal Police and Paramedics of the Red Cross arrived at the scene, they came across four people injured by gunfire. 

One of the females wounded, originally from Puebla, had an injury to her right arm; another 25 year old woman originally from the United States had wounds in one arm and left leg; While another victim, 29, had an injury in her gluteus.

A source commented to Zeta that the victims were on Bugambilias Street when a grey Cherokee or Suburban truck arrived, with several subjects on board, who began to shoot, killing at the scene the 11-year-old child.

News surfaced shortly thereafter that moments before the aggression one of the injured women was allegedly in a fight with a drug dealer in the area.

Zeta Tijuana