US consular worker in Mexico killed by Juarez Cartel hitmen
Posted: 15 March 2010 1146 hrs

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico: Hitmen working for Mexico's Juarez drug cartel were believed to be behind the assassination of three people including a US consular employee here, the government of Chihuahua state said Sunday.

In a press release, the state government said that based on the information exchanged between Mexican and US federal agencies, it was established that the investigation will focus on hitmen "belonging to a gang known as 'The Aztecas,'" which works for the Juarez Cartel.

The victims - identified by Mexican authorities as US consular worker Lesley Enriquez, her American husband Redelfs Arthur Haycock and Mexican national Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros - came under fire in separate locations as they were driving Saturday through Ciudad Juarez after earlier attending the same social event, a US official said.

The American couple's child, who was in the back seat of the car, survived the attack unharmed, but the woman and her husband were killed, officials said.

- AFP/sc