Posted on 11/11/2007 5:13:40 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico: A senior federal police official was gunned down Saturday while driving his car in the northern city of Saltillo and was in critical condition, police said.
Jose Luis Hernandez Marquez, chief of Mexico's Federal Preventative Police force in the border state of Coahuila, was shot at least five times Saturday morning by gunmen traveling in two vehicles, said a spokesman for the force, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to comment on the case.
The police chief's car "was intercepted by two vehicles from which various people, who have yet to be identified, opened fire on him," the federal attorney general's office said in a statement.
Members of Mexico's Army and Federal Investigation Agency joined officials from the preventative police — which was formed from military ranks in the 1990s — in searching for the shooters by land and air, the spokesman said. No arrests have been made.
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They were probably US citizens who were in Mexico illegally. Oh wait, I think I have something backwards.
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“was shot at least five times Saturday morning by gunmen traveling in two vehicles,”
Reminds me of Miami in the early 80’s.
I’ll bet you the guns used were bought at US gun shows. 100% are, you know. (/SARC)
Reminds me of Miami in the early 80’s.
More like the early '70s. By the summer of 1977, even the hits in Atlanta involved shooters with multiple automatic weapons.
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