Police commander slain
In Mexico's deadliest city.
The Associated Press
WFLS News
Date published: 11/6/2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - Authorities say gunmen have killed
a police commander in Mexico's deadliest city, where a dismembered,
decapitated body was found hours before.
Police spokesman Jacinto Segura says Noel Martinez was shot
inside his car Friday morning. Martinez is a former military
officer who was a district supervisor for the police in Ciudad
Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.
The city is caught in a turf war between drug cartels that has
killed more than 2,000 people this year.
State prosecutor's spokesman Arturo Sandoval says authorities
earlier Friday found a beheaded man in front of a university
campus.
Drug violence has killed nearly 14,000 people nationwide since
the government launched a crackdown on cartels in 2006.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Date published: 11/6/2009
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