Juárez February Toll 90 Homicides So Far and Still Counting

Diario Lists Eight Homicides Yesterday, Feb. 26, La Polaka Counts Nine
Five of the Victims Were Bound,  Found Murdered in a Residence 

**One was a man exercising yesterday morning in a gym (Diario, click here) when two sicarios burst in and shot him in the head in front of about ten fellow exercisers.  According to witnesses he had a brief communication with killers and did not try to defend himself.  His body slumped over a barbell with weights and there was a thin stream of blood.

**Another was an older night watchman in his post at the gate of a residential neighborhood in Quintas de Real, near the river on the East side of town.

**Another (click here) was wounded in a homicide attempt at 6 pm in La Libertad, on the West side of town.  At 7:30 p.m. a man was shot dead on the street in the same neighborhood.

**Five bodies, hands and feet tied, were found lifeless in a home in Anáhuac, just South of downtown. Cause of death not revealed yet, but witnesses say the victims were youths addicted to crystal meth. (click here).  There were conflicting reports as to whether the victims were strangled or bludgeoned to death.

**La Polaka reported the death of a man on Feldespar and Nacar, on the West side of town.  He was shot in the arm, chest, face, and head. (click here)