Thread: Baja commander shot to death

Baja commander shot to death

By Sandra Dibble, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 8:25 p.m.

ROSARITO BEACH — A state police commander in Rosarito Beach was shot to death Tuesday night, hours after his agents had found 23 migrants who told authorities they were going to be smuggled to the United States for $5,000 apiece.

José Antonio Sánchez Velásquez was attacked by armed assailants about 10:30 p.m. outside his office on Boulevard Popotla south of downtown. Another agent was injured in the attack; he was being treated at a hospital in Tijuana, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office reported Wednesday.

The state’s attorney general, Rommel Moreno, said investigators are looking into whether the commander was killed by smugglers as a result of the discovery of the migrants. They were staying inside a private residence whose owner was away. The house was along the free road to Ensenada, near the community of Primo Tapia.

Moreno didn’t specify how the migrants were to be transported, but the area has increasingly been used as a staging site for maritime smuggling

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How many more deaths is it going to take?? My thoughts go out to the family of the slain officer.