Thread: One women shot dead, another hanged in violent Mexican city

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Article Launched: 9/01/2006 02:44 PM


One women shot dead, another hanged in violent Mexican border city

Associated Press
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - A gunman shot and killed a 24-year-old woman as she walked her son to preschool Friday in this violent city on the U.S.-Mexico border. Another woman with her hands and feet tied behind her back was discovered hanged in her home.

Lucero Perla was shot in the head and died instantly shortly before 8 a.m. local time (1300 GMT), as she and her son left their home in downtown Nuevo Laredo, investigator Octavio Almanza said. Police recovered the pistol used in the shooting, but had made no arrests and weren't sure why Perla was slain.

Also Friday morning, authorities recovered the body of 36-year-old Silvia Garcia, a waitress at a number of clubs and bars downtown, who had been hung to death at her home in western Nuevo Laredo.

Authorities said Garcia's arms and legs were bound, suggesting she was killed rather than that she had committed suicide. Victims found with their arms and legs bound are often the victims of drug smugglers, but investigators had yet to determine a motive for the slaying or to detain any suspects.

Investigators say that so far this year, 143 people have been killed in Nuevo Laredo, a city of 300,000 across the border from Laredo, Texas.

U.S. and Mexican investigators attribute a spike in the violence to a bloody territorial struggle between rival Mexican drug gangs competing for the city's lucrative cocaine smuggling routes into American territory.

no morals, enough said. Yes, George they are just what we need.

Just more and more of those "fine folks" who want to come here and work for a better life...Give me a break!!