Posted on 04/08/2006 8:58:21 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
NUEVO LAREDO - Three Nuevo Laredo men were shot to death in two separate shootings Friday in the area of Colonia Hidalgo and Colonia Militar.
Nuevo Laredo ministerial police reported late Friday that they did not have any suspects.
In one shooting, an individual between 20 and 25 years of age - identified as Carlos "El Negro" Rueda - was found dead inside a house at 916 Tomas F. de la Garza in Colonia Hidalgo. Officers at the scene said Rueda had been shot several times.
Investigators recovered an automatic weapon and spent bullets from the street surface. Officers said neighbors refused to talk about the incident, other than to say that they heard gunshots.
Investigators quoted one neighbor as saying that Rueda had been at the place for about three months and generally kept to himself.
Some seven blocks from the Colonia Hidalgo shooting scene, police found the bodies of two other young men at the intersection of Tomas F. de la Garza and Gutiérrez Garza y Gutiérrez. Police quoted neighbors as saying that the two shootings occurred within minutes of each other.
The two young men were identified as Luis Alberto Pérez Martínez, 18, and Luis Raúl Sandoval, 24. Perez Martínez was found in a 1995 Ford Crown Victoria with Texas license plates.
Officers said Sandoval was found outside the car, where he was apparently drinking a soft drink. Neighbors summoned police and an ambulance. Sandoval was pronounced dead en route to Municipal Hospital.
At the scene, Nuevo Laredo ministerial police officers recovered several spent .45-caliber bullets.
Ricardo Mancilla Castillo, district attorney investigator at the scene, had the bodies from both shootings taken to a funeral home for the required autopsies.
Operations Northern Border and Safe Mexico don't seem to be working.
It's Fox's fault.
I suspect the more accurate wording would be "...several spent .45-caliber shell casings."
"recovered several 45-mm bullets."
... fired from a "semi-automatic revolver".
The more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more reformers inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back monopolists' abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with economic refugees. Here's an interesting new thread on new legal progress that finally emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts
We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well. Isn't it the neighborly thing to do?
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