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“[Mexican]Shootings target police, families”
SignOnSanDiego.com ^ | January 16, 2008 | Sandra Dibble
Posted on 01/16/2008 2:16:54 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
6 killed, 5 injured in three incidents

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “TIJUANA – A high-ranking police commander, his wife and his 11-year-old daughter were among six people killed in a burst of overnight violence in Tijuana that has left residents shaken and law enforcement officials vowing to fight harder than ever against organized crime.

The killings occurred in three parts of the city over six hours late Monday and early yesterday. By the time the violence was over, heavily armed men also had killed two other Tijuana police officers and a civilian, and wounded three adults, a 4-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy.

It remained unclear yesterday whether the shootings were linked.

The fact that children were shot has raised fears that violence has reached new levels in this city plagued by drug-related bloodshed. While law enforcement officials have been targeted, their families have largely been spared.

The attacks come a week after President Felipe Calderón’s government dispatched 1,000 federal police to Baja California, 500 of them to Tijuana to help state and local law enforcement agencies fight organized crime. Yesterday, federal troops helped guard Tijuana’s police headquarters. A few blocks away, soldiers kept watch over the state medical examiner’s office.

“It would be hard to have a day sadder than this one,” said Alberto Capella, Tijuana’s secretary of public safety, seated with top state and federal law enforcement officials at a packed news conference.

“We are not going to bow down; on the contrary, it gives us greater strength and determination.”

His own house was shot up by gunmen in November, shortly before he was appointed to his city post by Mayor Jorge Ramos, who has pledged to make public safety a hallmark of his administration.

In each of the three incidents, the assailants used AK-47 assault rifles.”