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[*] posted on 12-20-2006 at 08:06 PM
Two officers guarding Baja official shot, killed


Two officers guarding Baja official shot, killed




By Sandra Dibble
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
December 20, 2006

TIJUANA – Two state police officers died of gunshot wounds yesterday after an attack by armed assailants in a residential neighborhood. But the apparent target, a high-level official with the Baja California State Preventive Police, escaped serious injury.


The attack occurred about 6:50 p.m. in the Los Lobos section of eastern Tijuana. According to a statement released late last night, the two agents had been guarding Osiel Garcia, an assistant director of the state police force. The officers were shot while standing outside a residence while Garcia was inside, the statement said.
The killings are the latest attack on law enforcement officials in Tijuana. More than a dozen police officers with city, state and federal agencies have been shot in Tijuana since September.

Garcia stepped outside the residence after hearing the gunshots and was grazed by a bullet, according to the statement. “He was wearing his (bulletproof) vest and that's what saved his life,” Antonio Martinez Luna, Baja California's attorney general, said in a live interview last night on Tijuana's Channel 12.

Martinez Luna said Garcia had recently been transferred from Mexicali to Tijuana.

The two officers died at the Red Cross Hospital. Luis Fernando Terán Álvarez died about 45 minutes after the attack. Noé Ríos Ortega died a couple of hours later during surgery.

The assailants were riding in a white Tacoma pickup and a white Cherokee. They fired high-powered weapons, such as AK-47s or AR-15s, police said
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