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805gregg
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2 Americans shot in TJ
It was just reported on the evening news that 2 Americans waiting in there truck in line to cross the border, were approached by two gunmen and shot
and killed. Anyone confirm this? I started crossing at Tecate a few years ago.
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woody with a view
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dig up the link from the news stations website.
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DENNIS
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http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Policiaca/0404...
Spanish to English translation
While conducting line to cross into the U.S., were executed two people on board his vehicle.
According to authorities, the incident occurred about 2:40 pm today on the bridge Mexico, where he found a white pickup truck with two people dead
inside.
Witnesses said a man approached the vehicle lined up to cross to the U.S. and made several gun blasts and then withdraw.
The victims were identified as Sergio Salcido Luna, 25, and Kevin Joel Romero, 28.
Around the car were 5 9 mm shell casings.
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bajario
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Why is this not in our stateside news? Maybe this will be the beginning or the end of some overdue revolt, retaliation, retribution brought on by?
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Cyanide41
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Tomorrow I am letting everyone cut in front of me!
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Marc
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Drug related for sure.
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woody with a view
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i'm sure it was a random thing...... just like 99% of the rest.
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movinguy
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And there were witnesses - who just watched these guys walk away (?)
No one wants to get involved . . . 
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cabo3100
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It's hittin local San Diego news
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by movinguy
And there were witnesses - who just watched these guys walk away (?)
No one wants to get involved . . . |
How involved would anyone want to get with a someone who just wasted a couple of guys and still had the gun in his hand?
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movinguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by movinguy
And there were witnesses - who just watched these guys walk away (?)
No one wants to get involved . . . |
How involved would anyone want to get with a someone who just wasted a couple of guys and still had the gun in his hand? |
OK - maybe a bad example, but when something like this happens, nobody saw anything . . .
Seems like we have more of an old west mentality north of the border, where we want the bad guys to go down at all costs. In MX, you're advised to
stay out of it.
But I would agree that if you're not involved in the underlying shenanigans you have nothing to worry about . . .
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JaraHurd
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On a shooting like that in the States no one gets involved either...most of the time....atleast not where I work.
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BajaRat
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Usually crimes with this much passion have deeper roots.
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DENNIS
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Cartels have brought a whole new reality to Mexico. Culturally, Mexicans don't see much of what's not there business and with fear of retaliation,
they see even less. The police they might report the crime to are an unknown as to their loyalties.
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Bajahowodd
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaRat
Usually crimes with this much passion have deeper roots. |
Like I'd love to know what sort of cargo they were carrying.
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surfdoc
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This line says alot.....
The double homicide happened at 2:40 a.m. at 2nd Street and Puente México in the Río zone.
I'm thinking these guys were not registered on the Baja Nomad website...
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Dave
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A good day to cross
| Quote: | Originally posted by Cyanide41
Tomorrow I am letting everyone cut in front of me! |
Tomorrow, there might not be much of a line.
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surfer jim
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Wonder how traffic was for the people behind them?
Maybe just street vendors mad they didn't buy anything.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by surfdoc
This line says alot.....
The double homicide happened at 2:40 a.m. at 2nd Street and Puente México in the Río zone.
I'm thinking these guys were not registered on the Baja Nomad website... |
Dennis posted it was 2:40 p.m. ???
The time would make a difference in one's conclussions. No matter, where are the police and 'tourist police'. An afternoon hit would tend to make
everyone head for Tecate to wait in a line (though a hit could be any line in Mexico).
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BajaNews
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Two men shot and killed at border crossing
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/apr/04/two-men-shot-...
By Sandra Dibble
April 4, 2011 at 8:43 p.m.
TIJUANA — In a rare shooting at the San Ysidro border crossing, two San Diego workers were killed early Monday as they sat in a pickup waiting to
enter the U.S. The men were on their way to work when someone shot them repeatedly with a 9 mm weapon.
The Baja California Attorney General’s Office identified the victims as Kevin Joel Romero, 28, and Sergio Salcido Luna, 25. The agency provided few
details of the incident, which occurred at about 2:40 a.m., a time when many workers are in line to cross.
The men’s employer said they lived in Tijuana and worked for West Coast Beverage Maintenance, a company on Morena Boulevard that services and cleans
draft beer equipment for bars and restaurants.
Matt Pelot, the company’s owner, said Romero and Salcido had worked for him for about 1 1/2 years. He said both were U.S. citizens who lived in Mexico
to keep down expenses.
“They were good guys,” Pelot said. “I don’t think they were dealing drugs, selling drugs or anything to do with drugs. They were both very hardworking
individuals. They had a zest for life.”
A Mexican law-enforcement source said the two men apparently were targeted by an assailant who approached on foot between the lines of vehicles, fired
his weapon and fled. The Attorney General’s Office statement said that they had been shot in the head, chest, and arms.
Attorney General Rommel Moreno Manjarrez told reporters that detectives were investigating the possibility that the incident could be drug related. He
said one of the victims – he did not say which one – had a “small packet of drugs among his belongings.”
Neither U.S. nor Mexican officials immediately confirmed the men’s nationality Monday. But a U.S. law-enforcement source said that it appeared that
neither had criminal records.
Pelot said the men were friends who would cross early, as many workers do, and take a nap before showing up for work. Both worked out in gyms and were
clean cut.
The younger of the two, Salcido, was a cage fighter – a form of martial arts – who was training for a fight in June. Romero was in the process of
adopting his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son. “They worked real hard and wanted to pick up as much overtime as possible,” Pelot said.
More than 24 million people crossed in personal vehicles last fiscal year at the San Ysidro border crossing, according to Customs and Border
Protection.
Shootings in the border crossing lanes are extremely rare. In January 2002, a Mexican soldier sprayed bullets into cars waiting in line on the Mexican
side of the Otay Mesa border crossing, wounding three people. In April 1995, a stray bullet from a police shootout hit an innocent Mexican motorist in
the head as he was waiting in line to cross into the United States, killing him instantly.
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