Armed Attacks in Cajeme Leave 5 Dead and One Injured
Saturday violence started with an attempted carjacking
Sonora newspaper El Imparcial reports that a young woman lost her life following an attempted carjacking, four others were also killed and one man was injured in armed assaults on a violent Saturday on June 15 in the Sonoran municipality of Cajeme.
19-year-old Daniela “MA” was a passenger in a vehicle that an armed assailant attempted to carjack in the Cajeme town of Yaqui Pueblo at 12:30 a.m. on Saturday. The gunman stepped in front of the car and when it failed to stop, he fired on the vehicle, wounding Daniela. She later died at a hospital.
The violence continued later that day, when five armed attacks occurred between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. in Ciudad Obregon.
The assaults started shortly after 6:00 p.m. when two young people were killed in their home on Calle Francisco Zarco in Colonia Constitución.
Minutes later, two men were killed in a hail of more than 50 bullets while in a car at the corner of Calle Otancahui and Avenida Jesus Garcia in Colonia Las Arboledas.
And at 6:30 p.m. a man was seriously injured in an armed assault while riding in a car in Obregon’s Colonia Villa Fontana. His condition was not known at the time of the report.
After the assaults, police located two vehicles with weapons and tactical equipment in the El Rodeo subdivision of Ciudad Obregon.
And in an apparently related incident, witnesses reported that four alleged “sicarios” (assassins) in a gray late-model Nissan March abandoned their vehicle, leaving one man who had multiple gunshot wounds, and commandeered a red Yaris sedan from its owner to flee from the scene.
The Saturday gun violence followed the murders of nine people as a result of armed assaults in and near the border city of Agua Prieta.
We recommend that you use extreme caution if you choose to visit Agua Prieta, Ciudad Obregon or any other place in the municipality of Cajeme.
