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wilderone
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Tourist in TJ stabbed to death
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Body of N.C. teen found with stab wounds in Baja
7:24 a.m. March 31, 2009
TIJUANA — A 19-year-old North Carolina man who had been working in Orange County has been found dead in Tijuana.
The U.S. Consulate in Tijuana identified him as Shane Pennington. His family has been notified about the death, consular officials said yesterday.
The circumstances surrounding his death are unclear. The Baja California Attorney General's Office released a report March 24 of a man's body found on
the beach at Playas de Tijuana; the man had been stabbed numerous times.
Mexican news reports described the victim as a red-haired American, believed to be about 20, dressed in a blue striped shirt, blue jeans and white
tennis shoes. The description generally matched that of Pennington.
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jodiego
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Yea, relating to american turista's not being targeted and all the warnings about spending spring break in baja, although there has not been much
information to come out yet, this story is quite disturbing.
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Missing Teen Found Stabbed to Death in Tijuana
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March 31, 2009
ANAHEIM -- A 19-year-old man who had been living and working in Orange County has been found murdered near a Tijuana beach, officials said.
Officials at the U.S. Consulate in Mexico identified the victim Monday as Shane Pennington of North Carolina.
Pennington's body was found last Tuesday with stab wounds to the head, neck, back and chest. He had no identification on him, and the knife was
reportedly still lodged in his chest when authorities discovered his body.
Pennington had worked as a delivery driver for "A Cut Above Beef & Seafood" in Anaheim.
Authorities are trying to find his delivery truck, which he was allowed to take home with him last week.
It was not immediately known whether he drove the truck across the border, or whether he made the trip alone.
A Mexican newspaper recently ran a story on Pennington's death, showing a graphic picture of his lifeless body.
Authorities are trying to determine who killed him.
Those who worked with Pennington say he was a hard-working and responsible person who had been saving his money to go to college. His mother said "he
was going to live life to the fullest and no matter where he went, he made a friend."
Police in San Diego are working with Mexican authorities in the investigation.
The U.S. Government sent out a warning earlier this month against spring break and other travel to the Mexican border, specifically Tijuana, because
of recent deadly drug violence.
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Sad, I wonder if he was alone.
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is it really as bad as IT sounds. 1 tourist (R.I.P), 40-50 carjackings and the everyday kind of mordidas. if this were Gaza i'd be worrying. it's not,
yet!
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[Edited on 3-31-2009 by woody in ob]
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This kid was working for one of those pushy meat markets on wheels? The guys with the meatlocker on the back of a pick-up truck and always have a
deal on a side of beef?
These guys aren't shy or gullible- even at 19. Maybe they wanted the meat from his truck and the cash. He was found pretty far from Anaheim though.
Article said he was working to save for college- not a typical spring breaker.
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And probably not there to do a lot of drug trading which was the usual MO of people who get killed across the border.
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The channel 7 TV news Orange County reporter stated that the kid asked for the truck on his day off. It was assumed that he was planning to make extra
stops on his door-to-door sales route. Next everyone knew he turned up dead in TJ.
There are a lot of blanks in that part of the story.
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One thing is pretty certain, not to many 19 year guys go walking around on the beach alone. Take it from there.
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American people.\'
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We can have no \"50-50\" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajajack
One thing is pretty certain, not to many 19 year guys go walking around on the beach alone. Take it from there. |
Especially a young guy from North Carolina. A red-headed kid driving a meat truck would be hard to miss in TJ. I would think the mexican border
inspectors would have caught that one (importing meats). If he did go through the border by accident and went to the right - he would have wound up
where he body was found.
A TV reporter said debris from the truck was flying into highway traffic. A lady got the phone number from the debris and called to complain. The
answer is with the truck somewhere.
[Edited on 4-1-2009 by Woooosh]
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I have a problem with this thread's Subject...how do we know he was a "Tourist"? Nothing in any of the news articles describes him as a "toursit".
There is a lot missing from this story.
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Udo
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| Quote: | | There is a lot missing from this story. |
My point exactly!
What reason would a person have to borrow the boss' meat truck...then end up dead on beach in TJ?
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Unlike in the US where lethal violence is often due to mentally imbalanced people (high school/college massacres, drive-by-shootings, family
murder/suicides, sexually perverted creeps, religious wackos, building bombers, etc.) the TJ violence is usually profit motivated. A refridgerated
meat truck is probably a valuable item in TJ. I bet it was robbery, he tried to fight, and lost.
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how did he get through customs? & why would he come here with that truck? To take home some chorizo?
[Edited on 4-1-2009 by bajabound2005]
[Edited on 4-1-2009 by bajabound2005]
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Was the truck in Mexico/TJ????
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Once again, we have snippets of information. IMHO, he was NOT a tourist. If, for some reason, this kid working in Orange County wanted to spend the
weekend in TJ, he had many options. None of which made less sense than taking that truck. Not to mention, how would he ever get it back into the
States, unless it was empty? A route salesman in OC would have to be totally insane to think he could sell his product in Mexico. Whether or not the
truck crossed the border, he was not a tourist.
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I have spent some time in Playas. It is a fairly interesting place in the daytime. It's also a very large place.
That beach is at least 5 miles long.
Maybe the kid was taking the truck (empty) on a weekend trip to the beach. Not a great choice for a beach but still a beach, in Baja.
We don't know where he was stabbed and if he was just dumped there. Or where on the beach he was found.
I would not wander around on TJ beach at night.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Those who worked with Pennington say he was a hard-working and responsible person who had been saving his money to go to college. His mother said "he
was going to live life to the fullest and no matter where he went, he made a friend."
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Uh...I think he fell off the hard-working/responsible wagon. Unless he was kidnapped and forced to travel to playas.
My guess is that the delivery van is now a taco truck.
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"The truck that is missing is a silver 2004 Ford Ranger pickup truck with an attached freezer in the bed emblazoned with the company logo, "A Cut
Above."
The license number is 8E28590.
The truck, which also has an extended cab, was loaded with 102 packages of meat product worth about $2,000."
http://www.kusi.com/news/local/42238222.html
I read a bunch of news articles using Google News searches. Another interesting tidbit is that he called in sick using his cell phone the Monday after
he took the truck home for the weekend. I wonder if he called from TJ with a bad cheap tequila hangover.
He recently moved to CA from NC and had never been to TJ. He probably was totally clueless about TJ and the rules that pertain to re-entering the US.
The fact that he was found in playas is also unusual. American kids don't come here to party (I live in playas). There are just a few bars and there's
no "action" to speak of, especially on week nights. The malecon is a very creepy place at night. And Mexican murderers don't dump bodies on the beach,
they're too easily found, unless they want to make a point and hang the decapitated body from an overpass.
He really peeed off the wrong guy(s). They stabbed him in the head and neck and left the knife in his chest. One article described the murder as
especially brutal done by someone who was very angry.
Here's his photo:
[Edited on 4-1-2009 by k-rico]
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Yeah...This one is full of holes. Like some asked above, how did a commercial vehicle get past Mexican customs, especially if that load of meat was
in it at the time.
Murder is part of life in an imperfect world and those who are doing things in places where they don't belong with valuable property are extremely
vulnerable to horrific consequences. Sorry this kid got it.
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