1600 Murdered in Juarez in 2008!!!!

A Very Sad year for our sister city!!

In brief: Juárez respite ends as 2 men are slain
El Paso Times Staff
Posted: 12/31/2008 12:00:00 AM MST

Juárez respite ends as 2 men are slain
A man was shot and killed in the ProNaF tourist area of Juárez on Tuesday, ending a two-day span without a homicide in the troubled city, Chihuahua state police said.
The unidentified man was left for dead about 3:30 p.m. in the middle of the street not far from the building housing the Mexican attorney general's office, or PGR, on Avenida Abraham Lincoln.
At 12:15 p.m., a man identified as Armando González, 43, died after being taken to a the Santa Maria medical clinic with a gunshot wound, police said.
About 1,600 homicides have occurred in the city so far this year. Many are related to a drug war.
Daniel Borunda

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