Pubdate: Mon, 30 Nov 2009
Source: El Paso Times (TX)
Copyright: 2009 El Paso Times
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Author: Daniel Borunda
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BABY WOUNDED, 23 SLAIN OVER WEEKEND IN JUAREZ

An 11-month-old baby boy was wounded in a shooting as the violence
that has suffocated Juarez for nearly two years continued with more
than 20 killings over the weekend.

Chihuahua state police said the baby was hurt Saturday evening when
gunmen fired 21 rounds at a Ford Explorer in colonia Division del
Norte in the southern part of the city.

The driver, Carlos Javier Dominguez Sigala, 38, died in the vehicle.
The child was taken to a hospital. There have been no arrests.

Channel 26-KINT reported Dominguez is the baby's father.

The shooting was one of at least 11 homicides on Saturday and at least
four as of early Sunday. There were eight killings Friday.

Children this year have increasingly become victims of violence in
Juarez, often as bystanders, when shooters open fire at their intended
targets including vehicles occupied by families.

Also over the weekend, funeral services took place for Juarez police
officer Oscar Valenzuela Acosta, who was shot and killed Wednesday on
his day off. Valenzuela was with the police department for nearly
eight years.

More than 2,000 people have been slain in Juarez this year due in part
to a war among drug traffickers.

In other news, Mexican army paratroopers arrested eight alleged
members of a theft ring driving a "caravan" of three stolen Hondas
toward the town of Nuevo Casas Grandes in the northwestern part of
Chihuahua.

The group and alleged ringleader Alejandro Ruelas Dosal, 31, were
stopped Thursday at a military checkpoint on the Juarez-Nuevo Casas
Grandes highway.

Military officials said the Juarez-based group for the past two years
was involved in auto thefts and robberies of convenience stores and
delivery trucks that transported beer, cheese, milk and other cargo.
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