Shootings target police, families; 6 killed, 5 injured in three incidents
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=928
By Sandra Dibble
Union Tribune
A high-ranking police commander, his wife and his 11-year-old daughter were among six people killed in a burst of overnight violence in http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1735 vowing to fight harder than ever against organized crime.
The killings occurred in three parts of the city over six hours late Monday and early yesterday. By the time the violence was over, heavily armed men also had killed two other Tijuana police officers and a civilian, and wounded three adults, a 4-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy.
It remained unclear yesterday whether the shootings were linked. The fact that children were shot has raised fears that violence has reached new levels in this city plagued by drug-related bloodshed. While law enforcement officials have been targeted, their families have largely been spared.
The attacks come a week after President Felipe Calderón’s government dispatched 1,000 federal police to Baja California, 500 of them to Tijuana to help state and local law enforcement agencies fight organized crime.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20080116-9999-1m16tjcops.html