Pubdate: Sun, 19 Jul 2009
Source: El Paso Times (TX)
Copyright: 2009 El Paso Times
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Author: Aileen B. Flores, Staff Writer

5 GUNNED DOWN IN JUAREZ BAR

The violence in Juarez continued this weekend with several killings
inside public establishments and an attack on military forces.

At the Cereso prison, officials found high-powered weapons among
inmates.

A man was killed and 11 suspects were arrested during a shootout with
the military.

At 2:30 a.m. Saturday, soldiers responded to a call of several shots
fired in colonia Industrial.

When soldiers arrived, they were met with gunfire from a house near
the intersection of Juan Escobar and General Teran streets.

Soldiers responded and traded gunshots with an armed group and killed
a 18-year-old man identified only as "Julio Antonio." Eleven people,
including three minors and four women, were taken into custody.

Five weapons, 429 bullets, 30 bundles of what authorities believed was
marijuana and a vehicle were seized.

Also Saturday morning, soldiers confiscated a live grenade and a
machine gun at the Cereso prison. The weapons were found in a plastic
bin, officials said.

The grenade was the second found during the week. The other was found
Wednesday in the middle of a street by a resident.

In another incident, five customers at a bar were killed Friday night
by gunmen.

The Chihuahua state prosecutor's spokesman Vladimir Tuexi told The
Associated Press police found the bodies in the Amsterdam bar in the
Pronaf zone, a popular area with U.S. tourists.

In another shooting, two men were shot to death in a popular gymnasium
at the intersection of Avenidas Tecnologico and Ejercito Nacional.

Jesus Armendariz Flores, 37, and Israel Arizpe Reyes, 35, were shot
multiple times in the chest. The bodies were found few feet from the
entrance of the gym, Chihuahua state police said.

At least seven other people were killed Friday and Saturday. Drug
violence has killed more than 1,000 people in Juarez this year.
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