Mother suspects Juárez police in son's slaying
By Adriana M. Chávez / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 09/17/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT


Lance Corp. Gustavo Zubia-Lopez, a 2006 Canutillo High School graduate, was beaten, shot and killed Sept. 10 after a minor fender bender with a police vehicle, Zubia-Lopez's mother, Ernestina Rodriguez, said Tuesday, hours after she buried her son at Mount Carmel Cemetery. Victor Hugo Delgado, the husband of Zubia-Lopez's cousin, was also shot and killed.

"Nobody in Juárez wants to help me" find answers, Rodriguez said at her Northeast El Paso home.

Rodriguez said her son had gone to Juárez that day to get the brakes on his truck fixed. He and Delgado were last seen around 10 p.m. after Zubia-Lopez struck a police vehicle. Rodriguez said police initially let her son and Delgado go, but a few minutes later the two were surrounded by at least four police cars and taken into custody.

Rodriguez learned about her son the next day when she was watching a Juárez TV station's newscast and recognized the clothes on a body wrapped in a white sheet during a report on two bodies found on a Juárez street.

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