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Four Latino Tourists Found Murdered in Tijuana

Four young Latinos who crossed into Tijuana for a night of partying were found murdered in the border city, U.S. officials confirmed yesterday.
Charles Smith, a spokesman for the U.S. consulate in Tijuana, identified the victims as Brianna Hernandez, 19, Carmen Jimena Ramos, 20, Oscar Jorge Garcia, 23, and Luis Antonio Gamez III, 21. They were found tied up in a van—their bodies beaten, stabbed and strangled to death—last Saturday, but their deaths were not immediately announced because the murders were under investigation. A friend told the victim's parents that they were headed to party in nightclubs in Tijuana last Thursday night, but the group was reported missing the next day when none of them answered their cell phones.
Unfortunately, their deaths are just the latest in a growing number of violent deaths that have plagued the border city of Tijuana for the last several months. Authorities point to an ongoing turf war between two of Mexico's leading drug cartels as the reason for most of the violence. Fermin Gomez, an assistant state prosecutor in Baja California investigating the crimes, shared that relatives had confirmed that one of the victims was acquainted with some local drug traffickers.
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05.15.2009 7:03pm |
This is the latest from KPBS. Apparently, they were not tourists, but we share the familie's grief. Let's pray for them.
Drug Ties Suspected With Four Chula Vista Residents Dead in Tijuana
By Amy Isackson
KPBS
Thursday, May 14, 2009 - Baja California's Attorney General says four Chula Vista residents killed in Tijuana last Saturday were not tourists looking for a good time south of the border. The Attorney General strongly suspects the group had drug ties.
Baja California Attorney General Rommel Moreno says a relative of Briana Hernandez - she's one of two women killed - turned over a letter from a woman serving time on drug charges in Southern California.
Moreno says the letter threatened Hernandez and the others that they'd come to an end with cocaine up their noses.
The four bodies were found in blankets inside a van in a residential area in eastern Tijuana.
Authorities say Hernandez tested positive for cocaine.
Moreno says he can say categorically the four were not innocent victims.
"The fact that a young woman uses coke and has ties to a woman in jail on drug charges rules out that she's the kind of person who's simply a university student." (translated from Spanish)
Moreno says the four crossed the border often and were comfortable on both sides.
He says he's working with US authorities in the ongoing investigation.
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