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Mexico Party Shooting Leader Killed in Army Clash: Official
 Agence France-Presse
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February 03, 2010
| | Relatives of one of the victims of Sunday's killing mourn during his funeral on February 2 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The head of a gang that killed 16 young partygoers in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez at the weekend was killed shortly afterwards in a clash with soldiers, an official said Wednesday. (AFP/Jesus Alcazar) | |
Ciudad Juarez – The head of a gang that killed 16 young partygoers in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez at the weekend was killed shortly afterwards in a clash with soldiers, an official said Wednesday.
The man, called Ramon and nicknamed "El Doce," or "The Twelve," died late Monday in a shootout in Ciudad Juarez, according to a statement from one of his accomplices, Chihuahua State Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez said on Televisa television.
"He was the leader, the one who led the operation to exterminate the youths," Gonzalez added.
Some 15 gunmen opened fire on a party packed with teenagers in the early hours of Sunday, in a particularly extreme attack in the northern border city which is notorious for deadly score-settling between drug gangs.
Gonazalez said the suspected killers were hitmen from the Los Aztecas group working for the Juarez drug gang, which is fighting a bloody turf war against the Sinaloa gang.
The suspects had believed the young partygoers belonged to the Sinaloa gang, she said, without ruling out the possibility that adult members of that gang had been present or nearby.
The only suspect detained in connection with the killings said that his accomplices had thought the youths belonged to Los Artistas Asesinos group, which works for the Sinaloa gang.
He also said that his gang had killed five people on Monday in a Ciudad Juarez bar.
Gruesome gangland-style killings have spiraled in recent years in the city across from El Paso, Texas, which saw some 2,660 murders in 2009 alone, despite the deployment of some 6,000 soldiers in a nationwide crackdown on organized crime.
Suspected drug attacks have left more than 15,000 dead across Mexico in the past three years, as the government has deployed some 50,000 troops countrywide to tackle the growing violence.
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