2 killed, 2 wounded in shooting at Juárez funeral vigil

Daniel Borunda, El Paso Times
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Two people were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting attack during a funeral vigil Sunday night in Juárez.

Gunmen opened fire, killing a couple mourning the loss of their 18-year-old son at a vigil at a house in the Tierra y Libertad (Land and Liberty) neighborhood in the central part of the city, El Heraldo de Juárez reported. The couple's son had been killed in a shooting Thursday.

Those killed in the shooting were: a woman (who was about 38 years old) and a man (who was about 40), the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office said.

Another person was wounded along with a neighbor who is a municipal police officer and was attending the vigil, officials said. Investigators found 15 9-mm bullet casings at the scene.

The deadly attack at the vigil was among nine homicides in Juárez over the weekend, including the dismembered body of a man found in trash bags Sunday morning along a dirt road near the Camino Real highway, according to news reports.

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