New death list hung at police headquarters
By Adriana M. Chávez / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 05/31/2008 06:16:23 PM MDT


A new threat aimed at Mexican police was posted Saturday morning outside the offices of the Juárez paramilitary police.
The threat was written on a piece of cardboard and found at about 7 a.m. Saturday outside of the building, which is located on Valle Del Cedro avenue, but the note was removed before members of the media could take photos of it, Juárez media outlets reported.

Police spokesman Jaime Torres Valadez said police are trying to figure out who wrote the note found Saturday and two other notes targeting police, which were publicized earlier this year.

Saturday's note stated "Para los que faltan," or "For those who are left," and listed members of the department's Delta unit, which consists of paramilitary police officers, and officers who work the night shift.

After the note was discovered, Juárez Mayor José Reyes FerrÃ*z allowed officers to continue to wear their bulletproof vests after the end of their shifts, but urged them to leave their weapons behind at the request of Mexican troops patrolling the city's streets.

The first hit list was found at a police memorial in January. Another list was sent to members of the Juárez media in February.

The note was found about six hours after a man was shot outside of a convenience store on Isla Curazao and Isla Irlanda streets in the Guadalajara Izquierda colonia. The man was apparently shot by a group of men who approached him as he was entering a blue Chrysler Sebring, police said.

Also Saturday, a man



was found wrapped in an electric blanket in the Fraccionamiento El Márquez neighborhood near the intersection of Faisán and Jilgueros streets. Late Friday, a 23-year-old man was shot to death inside of his home during a drive-by shooting. The man's relatives rushed him to a nearby clinic but the man had already died. Police said they found about 18 bullet casings at the scene.
Police also said late Friday that a man injured in a shooting Thursday night near Vicente Guerrero and Ignacio Ramirez streets has died.

The man, who has not been identified, was in a white 1995 Oldsmobile with Edna Ivette GarcÃ*a de León, 19, and Cesar Otilio González Ramos, 22, when they were shot by someone in another vehicle with a machine gun. GarcÃ*a and the unidentified man died from blood loss after they were shot in the chest, while González died after he was shot in the head.

Adriana M. Chávez may be reached at achavez@elpasotimes.com; 546-6117.





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