said Monday they have no idea what motivated a weekend shooting attack
against a group of young partygoers that killed at least 16 people in
the border city.
The death toll rose from 14 after two more victims
died Monday from wounds suffered during the shooting attack, in which
gunmen in seven vehicles sealed off the street and opened fire on a
party packed with teenage revelers. More than a dozen people were
wounded during the attack around midnight Saturday.
The majority of the dead was under 20, and most were high-school or college students.
has witnessed spectacular violence for the last two years because of a
ferocious war between a pair of drug-trafficking groups that has killed
more than 3,700 people. Many of the killings have been gangland-style,
with bodies lined up in rows or left headless in public places, and few
are solved.
young victims was connected in some way to criminal activity.
Authorities have offered a reward of
“The violence has always been between the criminal
groups (but) in this case, in particular — good kids, students,
athletes — there is no apparent motive for these deeds, and that is
what concerns
The father of one victim in the weekend attack wept
during a radio interview as he called upon his government to stop the
killing that has shown no signs of abating in
“It’s not fair, President Calderon. Hear these
cries. They’re not from families that have problems with drugs, it’s
from a father whose heart has been torn out, whose son has been taken
away this way” said
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