Strangled on Tuesday in Anáhuac (Juárez)

With Four Young Stangled Men

The Tragic End of Jaqueline Avalos, 21, Mother of Three

Jaqueline Avalos was addicted to crystal meth.  Family members yesterday told Diario (click here) they had sent her for treatment several times without success.  Apparently, she ended up selling drugs in her house and somehow ran afoul of someone, possibly a local dealer or street gang

Whatever the case, she left her three children with family members a few days ago, and asked her brother, aged 17,  to stay with her at her house.  Neighbors told  Diario the house was used frequently for "scandalous" parties.  This suggests her house had become a picadero, or safe house, where people could buy and consume drugs.  On Tuesday afternoon at 5 p.m.  Jaqueline was found dead in the house, strangled, along with her brother and three more young men, apparently in their early 20's.  According to Diario the bodies each had a wire wrapped around the neck, with multiple knife wounds to the neck.  Their hands and feet were bound with electrical cords.  Investigators found a 20-inch knife nearby.

Jorge Nava, state prosecutor for the Northern Zone (of Chihuahua) indicated statements from witnesses who knew the victims, suggest the motive of the homicide was related to the sale of drugs and Jaqueline was probably the principal target of the attack.  

This story has some of the elements of the massacre (scroll down from here to see my post on August 1, 2018) of eleven youths in Col Praderas de los Oasis, in Southern Juárez, last August.  Jaqueline lived just off Municipio Libre, a block from the Galeana park.