2 El Paso health-care workers slain in Juárez
November 23, 2008
Mexican police at about 12:15 p.m. Saturday found the bodies of the man and woman in a gray 2004 Kia Amanti riddled with bullets at Boulevard Cuatro Siglos between Hermanos Escobar and Pérez Serna. Police said the car had U.S. plates.
Written by Darren Meritz, The El Paso Times
A Thomason Hospital official confirmed that a man and a woman shot multiple times and killed Saturday afternoon in Juárez worked as health-care professionals in El Paso.
Mexican police at about 12:15 p.m. Saturday found the bodies of the man and woman in a gray 2004 Kia Amanti riddled with bullets at Boulevard Cuatro Siglos between Hermanos Escobar and Pérez Serna. Police said the car had U.S. plates.
The Thomason official said that the man was a physician's assistant who worked through the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center's Paul Foster School of Medicine, and that the woman was an intensive-care unit nurse at the hospital.
The couple were in Juárez attending the funeral of her sister, who was killed in a homicide last week; the couple were obviously targeted, the official said.
A statement from Chihuahua state police said that as many as 20 shell casings were found at the crime scene and that the victims -- a male driver, estimated to be in his late 50s, and a female passenger, believed to be in her late 30s -- were killed by gunshot wounds.
Investigators at the scene discovered what appeared to be AK-47 shell casings, which were sent for analysis to the Ballistic Forensics Laboratory in Juárez.
Police said the victims were transferred to the city morgue, where autopsies were expected to be conducted.
Police did not indicate whether suspects had been identified in the killing.
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