Gunmen Kill Drug Chief, Two Others
From Times Wire Reports
Paid killers shot to death a boss of the Ciudad Juarez drug cartel and two other people in an ambush, prosecutors said.
The gunmen killed cartel boss Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes, 29, as well as his girlfriend and a former detective at a cinema in the northwestern town of Culiacan on Saturday night.
The gunmen fled but clashed with police who had set up roadblocks on highways leaving the city. Five of the assailants, wielding automatic rifles, were killed in two shootouts with police. Two men were arrested.
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