Diario de Juárez Shows 7 Persons Killed Last Year Shortly After Leaving the State Prosecutor's Office

The gunfight in front of the state prosecutor's office on Sunday night, which apparently foiled an attempted assassination of an Azteca member as he was released from the facility, prompted Diario to undertake some research.  The results?  At least seven men assassinated in the past year were killed shortly after leaving the Fiscalía Estatal in Juárez. (click here)

On March 17 2018 two police officials, Arturo Ledezma Porras and Saul Flores Lares, were killed at the stoplight at Oscar Flores and Lopez Mateos, five minutes after leaving the Fiscalía.  Police believe the intended victim was Ulises Pacheco Rodriguez, Coordinator of Public Ministries, who had reserved the vehicle Ledezma and Flores were in.

On July 19 Armando Sahagun Gonzalez and his mother, Guillermina González, were killed by gunfire at the same intersection of Oscar Flores and Lopez Mateos, in a Jeep Compass, minutes after Sahagun was released from the Fiscalia.  Sahagun was a member of the Los Aztecas, but had recently switched to La Linea.  He had been held at the Fiscalia for 48 hours after being witness to a homicide.  His mother drove to the Fiscalía to pick him up.

On July 10 a man was assassinated in Barrio Alto after being released from the Fiscalía

On August 4 a father and son, both bus drivers, were released after being accused of beating a passenger in a bus they were driving.  Both were killed within an hour after being released from a holding cell at the Fiscalía.

On August 6 a man was shot to death a few yards away from the Fiscalía, five minutes after being released from the Fiscalía, where he had been detained on suspicion of shooting at a business establishment.