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Eight-year-old girl, recently arrived from Mexico, killed by stray bullets in Chicago

24Jan

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Eight-year-old girl, recently arrived from Mexico, killed by stray bullets in Chicago

CHICAGO | A Mexican girl, a recent immigrant to the United States, was killed over the weekend in Chicago in a shootout between rival gang members that sparked consternation in the violence-ridden northern city. • Read also: Mexico: a second journalist murdered in Tijuana in a week • Read also: Shooting in Mexico: reckoning • Read also: Mexico: Two Canadian tourists killed and another injured in hotel shooting Eight-year-old Melissa Ortega was walking with her mother on Saturday afternoon down a street in the third-largest city in the United States when shots rang out. Despite their efforts to take cover, the girl was shot twice in the head, according to a law enforcement report. ...

Mexico: a second journalist murdered in Tijuana in a week

24Jan

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Mexico: a second journalist murdered in Tijuana in a week

A journalist who told the president she feared for her life three years ago was murdered in Tijuana on Sunday, the second murder of a media professional in a week in this northwestern Mexican border town. United States, authorities said on Monday. Lourdes Maldonado Lopez was killed by a "firearm while she was in a vehicle," the Baja California state attorney general's office said in a statement. She "worked as a journalist", added the prosecution, announcing the opening of an investigation. Another journalist, photoreporter Margarito Martinez, was killed last Monday in the same town. He collaborated with the weekly Zeta, the daily Jornada and foreign journalists reporting in the region. The prosecution said it was not ruling out any motive in its investigation....