Posted on 02/08/2011 7:54:39 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
EL PASO, Texas -- A car lot in Juarez.
That's where 15-year-olds Carlos Mario Gonzalez Bermudez and Juan Echeveeri Luna, both students in El Paso, were killed by gunmen there Saturday.
Gonzalez Bermudez's mother told our news partners - channel 44 in Juarez - the teens were buying a set of car rims.
At some point, gunmen looking for the owner, opened fire on him and the teens. Gonzalez Bermudez and his family had just moved to El Paso to get away from the violence. He was a sophomore at Cathedral. Echeveeri used to go there, but transferred to Radford.
I wonder from where did they move?
Wrong kids.... wrong place... wrong time....
60 casings on the ground--
WRONG SIDE OF THE BORDER!!
Story makes no sense, they were at private schools in USA, they moved there from Mexico and were killed in Mexico. ????????? Was someone in the family dealing????
The report says the families moved from Juarez to El Paso to "escape the violence," but it makes it sound like these kids were back in Juarez doing window-shopping at a car dealership.
Yeah, right.
The teens were buying a set of car rims ... from the midnight auto salvage.
At some point, gunmen looking for the owner, opened fire ... the gunmen working for the owner opened fire when they tracked down the missing rims.
Gonzalez Bermudez and his family had just moved to El Paso ... after swimming the river and jumping a fence.
* including additional details omitted from the original article
Very sad that these young men were killed. I do have to wonder what a couple of 15 year olds were doing in Mexico buying rims.
Suuuuure they were.
Where were the parents??
--AND--
What were the parents thinking...??
Just sayin'...
Concur with your analysis...
More than meets the eye here....
Be safe!
It is actually very possible that these kids were legitimately shopping for rims. I live in El Paso and you would be amazed at the trifling things people are willing to go into Mexico for. With the cold snap we just had, one of my co-workers went down there this last weekend to buy copper pipe fittings.
True.
On the other hand ... it is actually very possible that my take was closer to the actual situation ... and in either case, we will probably never know for sure.
True.
On the other hand ... it is actually very possible that my take was closer to the actual situation ... and in either case, we will probably never know for sure.
Then why go back?
Probably Juarez.
The El Paso Times says that César Yalin Miramontes Jiménez, 17, was also killed with these two.
The students were killed in one of three triple homicides that took place this past weekend in Juárez.
I find that hard to swallow. The family moved from there because of the violence, then let 2 15 year olds go back just to buy rims? It's either a huge lie or really bad parenting - or both.
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