Police killed in Tijuana
Outside a police station in the Colonia Libertad neighborhood of Tijuana, a boy peers into a police pickup damaged by gunfire. One auxiliary policeman was slain and another wounded in the attack, one of a number across the city the night before by masked gunmen that left a total of seven officers dead, and two wounded. An additional officer was injured in an earlier assault. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Near-simultaneous attacks have killed seven police officers
in the Mexican border city of Tijuana.
Passersby look at the blood-streaked pavement in front of a convenience store where four Tijuana police officers were slain in a drive-by shooting the night before. Investigators say the coordinated attacks in several locations across the border city took place within an hour. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A woman who did not want her identity revealed shows a digital camera image of the carnage she witnessed the night before. The four Tijuana police officers killed outside the convenience store were reportedly attacked by heavily armed masked gunmen. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Heavily armed police officers walk into headquarters in downtown Tijuana the morning after seven policemen were slain and two wounded by gunmen in the apparently coordinated attacks across the city around 8 p.m. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Tijuana motorcycle police officers wait for orders on the sidewalk outside the downtown headquarters after their normal patrols of the city were cancelled. In the wake of the deadly attacks on police, motorcycle patrols were considered too dangerous. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
A Tijuana police crest bears numerous bullet holes from an attack the night before that left one auxiliary police officer dead and another wounded in the Colonia Libertad neighborhood. The plaque reads, “Social Justice. Tijuana Patriotism Begins Here.” (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
