Lawyer slain, journalist injured in northern Mexico
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Lawyer slain, journalist injured, by gun-toting assailants in northern Mexico
ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:55 p.m. April 5, 2005
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – A lawyer was shot in the head and killed while a journalist survived after being shot eight times in two separate incidents in this violent northern border city on the Texas border, police said Tuesday.
Fernando Partida Castaneda, a lawyer who allegedly had represented drug traffickers, was shot Monday night by two armed assailants who surrounded his car and fired six times, police for the state of Tamaulipas, where Nuevo Laredo is located, said in a news release issued Tuesday. The assailants escaped after the shooting, which took place just a little more than 300 yards (meters) from a police station.
Partida, whose age was not released, was hit three times in the head and three times in the chest and shoulders. He died instantly, police said.
Guadalupe Garcia Escamilla, 39, a radio reporter in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, was shot eight times by a lone assailant Tuesday morning as she arrived at work, the state police said.
"Nothing is going to happen to me! Nothing is going to happen to me!" she cried as paramedics attended her. She was in serious condition at a hospital with four gunshots to her chest and abdomen and four to her legs and arms.
The assailant fired 14 times at Garcia, police said. State Police Commander Rafael Hinojosa refused to comment on the case.
Police have been battling an ongoing wave of violence in Nuevo Laredo, much of it believed to be related to drug trafficking. At least 20 people have been killed in ambush-style shootings in the city so far this year.
Last Saturday, attorney Anselmo Guarneros was shot in his office, located less than a mile (kilometer) away from a police station.
Guarneros was treated at a hospital for a small wound to his abdomen and released. Police did not say who was responsible or what the motive was behind the attack.
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