“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
From the late hours of Friday, November 3 until 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 4, Tijuana police responded to thirteen homicide reports. Nine of the victims were abandoned during the morning of Saturday and eight of them were left with a message on a poster addressed to other criminal groups in the city.
Chronologically, according to the State Attorney General’s Office, this is how the events occurred: on Friday, November 3, the Tijuana General Hospital reported the death of a 52-year-old man, who was admitted due to gunshot wounds. Similarly, the Red Cross reported the death of a 42 year old woman, who was admitted by a unit of the institution due to injuries caused by a firearm.
At night, gunshots were reported in the Colonia Buena Vista Annexa del Rio. Upon arrival of the units, they found a dead man and a 50 year-old man injured. The deceased, approximately 25 years old, was in a dorsal decubitus position, with wounds in the cephalic region and back.
Early in the morning of November 4, a civilian reported seeing a person lying in the street in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood, Playas de Tijuana district. Upon arrival of the units, they located a man of approximately 30 years of age, wrapped in a black and red blanket, in lateral decubitus position, deceased. The victim was bound by his lower extremities.
Four homicides were reported in the Otay area: one homicide was reported on the Aeropuerto highway; a double homicide was reported on Calzada Tecnológico in the Otay Indeco neighborhood and another near the Reforma fields. In Sanchez Taboada another two homicides were reported, both on Diaz Ordaz Boulevard and Camino Verde.
According to the Tijuana municipal police, this is how the events occurred chronologically:
At 00:20 hours, on Manuel M. Dieguez Street, in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood, a body was located, bound by the feet and wrapped in a blanket, with a cardboard nailed to the back with a message.
At 5:05 a.m., on Escultores street, in the Reacomodo Sanchez Taboada neighborhood, a dead man was found wrapped in a carpet with a cardboard with a message.
At 5:25 a.m., on Cerrada Obreros Street, also in the Sanchez Taboada neighborhood, near the Oxxo Omega, a man was found dead with a message wrapped in a blanket.
At 5:30 a.m., on Popotla Street, in the Tomas Aquino neighborhood near the Reforma field, the body of a man with marks of violence and a cardboard with a message.
At 5:35 a.m. on Boulevard Díaz Ordaz, in Infonavit Lomas Verdes near the pedestrian bridge, human remains were found, specifically upper extremities with a cardboard over them.
At 6:10 a.m., in the Fermín Aguilera alley, in the Del Rio neighborhood, a body was found bound and wrapped in a blanket, and a threatening cardboard.
At 7:00 a.m., on Xicotencalt Street, in Camino Verde neighborhood, a man was found decapitated and wrapped in a blanket.
At 7:05 a.m., on Jaime Nuno street, in Tomás Aquino neighborhood, a dead person wrapped in a cloth and with a threatening cardboard.
And at 7:35 a.m., again on Boulevard Díaz Ordaz, colonia Pinos de Agüero, two backpacks with human remains and a threatening poster.
It is estimated that there are 13 victims, although it will be the State Attorney General’s Office who will determine the genetic profiles of the victims and recognize the identity and quantify the DNA files.
