A twelve-year-old boy was killed by gunfire near a playground last night in San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato. 390 children have been killed by firearms in Mexico so far this year, an average of 1.65 per day.
The attack occurred around 9:30 p.m. near the San Pancho park in Colonia Jardines de San Miguel of the municipality of San Francisco del Rincón. Police responded to 911 calls and found a twelve-year-old boy dead and two other youths seriously injured. According to witnesses, the shooters were in a Black Chevy Avalanche with tinted windows. The vehicle was found abandoned nearby but the shooters were not found.
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| Photos from AM Noticias. |
Just three days before, a ten-year-old girl was killed and a 3-year-old was injured by stray gunfire from another attack in the same region.
Between the start of the year until July of this year, 1,398 people under the age of 17 were killed in Mexico, an average of 6.7 daily, according to data collected by the Network for the Children in Mexico (REDIM). Just as with figures for all homicides, Guanajuato is one of the most dangerous states. Of these, 390 were killed by firearm, and are therefore most likely to be linked to organized crime.
This figure is similar to Causa en Común's annual report on atrocities in Mexico, which found 359 children were "assassinated" in Mexico last year. Their mid year report for 2023 showed that between the start of the year until June, 134 assassinations occurred. Assassinations are considered to be an aggravated form of homicide under Mexican law, including extreme violence or economic reason for killing, such as an organized crime killing.
Sources: AM Noticias 8/24/23, AM Noticias 8/20/23, El Economista 8/24/23, Informe Anual de Atrocidades 2022, Derecho en Mexico, Derechos Infancia REDIM Data
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ReplyDeleteYour article indicates it was done by C.S R.L
Hello thanks for your comment! The Am noticias article? I dont catch where it says that.
Delete3:34 where ????
DeleteDamn piche du madres sicarios
ReplyDeleteOh but the Mexican Government is okay with this as long as they get their money cut. Children and young people are paying the price on both sides of the border. It just shows how hypocritical society is. imagine if this was a kid of a someone in the position of power then they would of move rocks to get these mfs. SAME here in the USA they do not care for our children, We the common folk are not afforded justice, and we need to say it louder in journalism/ and in our communities.
ReplyDeleteDo you have a number of children killed by firearm in USA? I feel its higher, most of them by accident of curse just because the amount of guns in the USA
ReplyDeleteIf my math is right, a youth in the US is more likely to be murdered by a firearm than in Mexico.
Delete2,590 youth gun deaths in the US in 2021. 60% of these were homicides.
2,590 x .60 = 1,554 youth gun homicides.
Source:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/06/gun-deaths-among-us-kids-rose-50-percent-in-two-years/
Compared to Mexico: 363 youth gun homicides in 2021
Source:
https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/politica/Crecen-136-asesinatos-de-menores-con-armas-de-fuego-20220526-0154.html
Per 100,000 comparison:
US population 2021: 331.9 million
Mexico population 2021: 126.7 million
1,554/331,900,000 x 100,000 = .468 USA
363/126,700,000 x 100,000 = .286 MEXICO
Caveat to the US number - homicide is more or less common based on racial demographic, unlike Mexico. So an Asian youth is probably far less likely than the aggregated US number
DeleteThanks wason! My point been two different countries, two different cultures and two different problems that at the same time are intertwined, Mexicos problem in this case is that of a narco culture and the USA is a drug abbuse, when the USA stops using drugs than they can judge mexico for selling them, so easy to see and at the same time to complicated to stop, it wont matter if you destroy the mexican cartels as long as there are addicts there will always be dealers, its a lost war, just give up and let any and every body do as they wish, just like alcohol
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DeleteIt's compare Apples to Oranges time yippee 🤣.
9:26 maestra Kanuta yes, while in mexico you are way more likely to get killed if you are a drug dealer than the USA, in the USA is you are more likely to get killed if you are a teen, simple math, simple statistics
DeleteThank God CJNG took over that plaza. I'm sure this is part of the cleansing of ratas, lacras, violadores, cobra pisos and kidnappers they promised to rid Guanajuato of.
ReplyDelete441 CSRL are like cucarachas. They welcome death to innocents because it heats up the plaza. You know this bronie.
Delete4:41 safe to say that cjng are the killers of this child since they own that plaza
DeleteCJNG living up to the baby killer cartel reputation. De milagro no mataron algun anciano.
DeleteIn guanajuato there are a lot of little gangs, no different than any city in the USA, every body thinks all this killings are because of cartel activity, well let me tell you something in mexico you can get killed for staring at a guy the wrong way and it doesnt really have to be cartel activity, it could be a little gang or just personal, kids grow up way faster in mexico, thats the reazon why they also die younger
DeleteSounds like bad parenting, what parent let's there kids play or even go out when this is going on. Everyone knows they shooting and killing every day. Keep your kids off the street s.
ReplyDeleteSome feral children roam at odd hours, they don’t deserve death penalty.
DeleteThis shiit sad man…. Young innocent kids should never go like that. Rip
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