Posted on 01/16/2007 5:21:03 AM PST by radar101
TUCSON, Ariz. - Two Mexican men were killed and two were wounded 20 miles north of the Arizona-Mexico border after men wearing camouflage and armed with assault rifles attacked them, authorities said.
The two wounded men and two other men who were not hurt found help at the home of a woman near Aliso Springs. The four knocked on her door around 10 a.m. Monday, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said.
One of the men had been shot in the back and the other was shot in the forearm.
When deputies arrived, the men told them two more men might still be in the desert near Aliso Springs, an area popular among human and drug smugglers.
At about 2:30 p.m., deputies found the body of one man. They found another dead man just before 5 p.m.
One of the men had apparently died of gunshot wounds. The other had fallen down a ravine and had sustained injuries to his head; the cause of his death is still under investigation, and it was unclear whether he had suffered gunshot wounds.
The four survivors of the incident, from Imuris, Sonora, told authorities they were backpacking marijuana from Mexico into the United States when they were confronted by three robbers in camouflage clothing and armed with assault rifles, Estrada said.
The men dropped the marijuana and fled as the assailants fired at them, he said.
The two men who were shot but survived were taken to a Tucson hospital. The other two men will be detained by the U.S. Border Patrol as witnesses.
Authorities have notified the Mexican Consulate of the incident.
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The taxpayers of Tuscon and Arizona get to pay the hospital bills.
I love it...absolutely perfect...this is what happens when the wild west mentality prevails
The mexi's made it the wild west let's see if they can take it.
that is how the chinese stopped drug use in china.
Is the situation on the southern border out of hand yet?
Since these groups have sent out blatant calls to action to frame any border control on the border agents and Minutemen by shooting immigrants.
I love the guy in that poster wearing a Palestinian-style headwrap. That should give everyone the warm fuzzies.
Looks like a rock ala Pali freedom fighter style in his hand as well.
He looks like a Berkeley, CA anti war activist.
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OH, these must be the crimes Alberto Gonzales just now is realizing have been happening. We have no good guys here Alberto, all are just illegal criminals foisted upon American citizens.
IMHO a world-wide open season, no bag limit on anyone wearing a ski-mask in anything less than 12" of snow, might just improve the world situation dramatically.
Border Bandits Ping!
If you want on or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepmail me.
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