| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2009 
Police Commander Slain in Mexico's Deadliest City
 Associated Press
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November 07, 2009
| | A federal police officer stands behind broken glass in a hotel's entrance after a shooting between federal police and alleged drug traffickers in Tijuana, Mexico, late Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. According to federal police, a federal police agent was shot and injured during the shootout. (AP/Guillermo Arias) | |
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – 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.
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