I was surprised not to find this posted already. I stumbled upon it today while reading
www.milenio.com (a mexican news source), and confirmed it with the following
source:
Quote:
EL PASO, Texas — Authorities say a 21-year-old Texas National Guard soldier was one of two men killed on a street in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Spokesman Arturo Sandoval of the Chihuahua state attorney general's office says family members identified the soldier as 21-year-old Jose Gil Hernandez of El Paso.
The identity of the other man was not available, and details on the incident and the dead were few.
A message left with FBI El Paso spokesman Michael Martinez by The Associated Press on Wednesday night was not immediately returned. However, he told the El Paso Times that Hernandez was shot about 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Colonia Revolucion Mexicana in Ciudad Juarez.
Martinez told the newspaper that the FBI and the Army's Criminal Investigation Division were trying to verify the details of the shooting. A message left Wednesday night with a spokeswoman at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, was not immediately returned. A terse statement issued by Fort Bliss on Wednesday afternoon said only that its investigators had not confirmed the identity of "the individual involved in the incident in Juarez."
Ciudad Juarez has become one of the world's deadliest cities amid a turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels. More than 2,000 people have been killed this year in the city, which is across the border from El Paso.
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The other
source, says that the local authorities had not confirmed whether one of the victims was part of the U.S. Military.
Im curious to see what the results of the investigation are, because if it was a directed at an enlisted person, it won't help the current diplomatic situation.
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