Juárez student killed in shooting outside school; body hanged on highway
Classes at a Juárez technical high school remained canceled Wednesday after a 16-year-old boy was killed and another student was wounded in a shooting Tuesday afternoon outside the campus, authorities said.
The boy and girl were outside CBTIS 128 when they were shot by assailants who fled on a motorcycle, according to news reports. CBTIS 128 is located along Zaragoza Boulevard in southeastern Juárez near the city's airport. The school's name is an acronym for Technological Industrial and Services Baccalaureate Center No. 128.
Municipal and state police and the Mexican military responded to the scene. A possible motive in the shooting had not been disclosed as an investigation and the search for the shooters continued Wednesday.
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"We are sad and dismayed by the events that happened outside the campus," school Principal Jose Gonzalez Cereces said in a statement Wednesday. "... We join the pain that the families of our students who were violently attacked are going through."
School administrators are working with local, state and federal authorities to review and reinforce campus security measures, Gonzalez added.
The deadly attack follows the shooting death April 27 of a 17-year-old boy who was a high school student at Preparatoria Visión Azteca in southwestern Juárez.
There have been more than 360 murders in Juárez this year, including about 75 killings in April, making it the month with the fewest number of deaths this year, according to homicide tallies from local news reports
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Chihuahua state police are investigating after the mutilated body of a man was found Tuesday hanging upside down from a metal archway over a rural highway in the northwestern corner of the state.
The macabre sight was discovered by passersby shortly before 7 a.m. on the highway between the towns of Casas Grandes and Colonia Juárez, the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office said. The nude body dangled over the road, tied from his feet.
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El Diario del Noreste newspaper reported that the man, who had been castrated, was identified as a 63-year-old man from the town of Janos. A sign left at the scene accused him of raping a 5-year-old girl. State investigators had found no reported criminal complaints against the man.
'Fast and Furious' street racing bust in Juárez
Juárez transit police impounded sports cars and arrested 21 drivers accused of street racing late Sunday night in the Chamizal Park area along the U.S. border, officials said.
The drivers were allegedly drag racing when they were surprised in a police operation dubbed "Rápidos y Furiosos," or "Fast and Furious," like the popular car-action movie franchise now on its 10th installment.
The operation at 10:30 p.m. was carried out to reduce the risks posed by clandestine street racing, police said.
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