Juarez City.– Closes the month with 75 homicides; among the victims there are 8 women and 5 minors
The month of April closed with 75 people murdered in Ciudad Juárez, a number that includes eight women and five minors, personnel from the Crimes Against Life Unit of the State Attorney’s Office in the North Zone reported yesterday.
It is a lower figure than that registered in the first three months of 2023, since January closed with 94 victims of intentional homicide, February had 93 and March (the month with the highest incidence) closed with 117 people murdered, reported an investigative agent.
The last case was recorded last night, when a man was shot to death inside an invaded house located at the intersection of Hacienda el Alamillo and Hacienda la Esperanza streets, in the Las Haciendas subdivision, to the southeast of the city, they reported. municipal agents.
Of the total homicides in April, firearms were used in 50 cases, a total of 13 people were found wrapped in blankets, three were beaten to death, two were suffocated, two more were buried clandestinely, another two were found tied to feet and hands, as well as two “entambadas”.
Among the number of homicide victims in the month that has just ended, there was also a person intentionally burned, said the investigative police officer.
This represents 33.78 percent of victims who were killed by means other than shots from a firearm or wounds with a knife, placing April as the month with the most intentional homicides with traces of torture, which for the Municipal Public Security Secretariat and the Security and Justice Board of Ciudad Juárez represents the possibility of linking these deaths with the criminal activity of human trafficking, according to statements by its owners in previous weeks.
On the other hand, during the last 12 days of April there were no such homicides, but rather the last 29 victims of this month were shot to death at different events throughout the city.
It also highlights that it was in the west and north-west where a large part of the murders in April were concentrated, leaving the northeast without cases and with two cases in the southern sector, according to the journalistic monitoring of the location by El Diario de Juárez. of violent acts.
Throughout the year, a total of 379 people have been deprived of their lives in Ciudad Juárez, according to official statistics from the State Attorney’s Office in the Northern Zone.
Low number of homicides at the state level by 31%
At the state level, homicide cases dropped 31 percent, going from 203 murders in March to 140 reported this month, the lowest figure in the year, since 180 occurred in January and 184 during February.
The decrease in cases in Ciudad Juárez stands out, which had 75 homicides against the 117 cases presented the previous month. There was also a reduction in Cuauhtémoc, where nine homicides were recorded, while in January there were 10; in February 14 and another 13 in March.
Among the events that stand out in the state, is what happened in the municipality of Madera, where the dispute over clandestine logging left five people dead on April 18.
The attorney general, César Jáuregui, said that a notable containment was achieved in the number of homicides in the state, but acknowledged that the figures are still high, so coordinated operations will continue with the authorities of the three levels of government to maintain numbers down.
The reduction in the number of homicides occurs after March marked a considerable increase in this type of crime, forcing the authorities to strengthen strategies and presence in various sectors of the urban sprawl to counter organized crime.
In the city of Chihuahua
Meanwhile, a 35 percent reduction was recorded by the city of Chihuahua during the month of April in the number of intentional homicides, compared to the previous month, closing with 30 murders, according to the report issued by the District Attorney’s Office for the Central Zone.
