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“Mexican army secures Rio Bravo”
Valley Morning Star/The Monitor ^ | December 1, 2007 | MARTHA LETICIA HERNANDEZ
Posted on 12/01/2007 9:57:24 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
“Shooting outside downtown restaurant left 6 dead, 3 wounded”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “RIO BRAVO — The Mexican army cordoned off Rio Bravo early Friday, one day after a shooting outside a downtown restaurant left three hospitalized and six dead, including prominent political figure Juan Antonio Guajardo Anzalduá.
Soldiers searched vehicles leaving and entering the city, which sits in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas across the Rio Grande from Donna(Texas). Some residents of the city said the incident has frightened them, and the residents fear violence in the city could escalate. “We are afraid. We are very scared,” one Rio Bravo woman said in Spanish, requesting anonymity out of concern for her safety. “We think that something bigger could happen.”
Gunmen opened fire about 5:30 p.m. Thursday as Guajardo and his entourage left a restaurant on Madero Avenue. Guajardo was the former mayor of Rio Bravo, a two-term representative and a one-time senator. He was seeking re-election before he died Thursday, one day before his 49th birthday.
The spray of bullets ripped through Guajardo’s group and several bystanders.
Authorities identified the deceased as Gerardo Enrique Guzman Velásquez, Carlos Hugo Moncada Gonzalez, Jesús Mata García, and federal agents Gastón Miguel Cequeda Garcia and Israel Sanchez García. The federal agents have guarded Guajardo for months, after an assassination attempt on him earlier this year.
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Law enforcement officials revealed little about the investigation, which will be led by Assistant District Attorney No. 3 Gerardo Treviño Martinez. Treviño’s office said he spent Friday in Reynosa, overseeing the delivery of the bodies and interviewing the three injured people, who were hospitalized in Reynosa.
One of the injured victims is a federal agent, who suffered a bullet wound to his abdomen.
A bullet grazed a woman’s chest, and a third woman’s leg broke when a bullet struck her.
So far, authorities have released no motive for the shooting. Earlier in the year, the Zetas organized crime syndicate had threatened Guajardo’s life, and he had also narrowly avoided an assassination attempt, prompting the government to assign bodyguards to him.”