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Mexican officials have identified 13 people killed Sunday night in a Tijuana drug rehabilitation center, the state-run news agency said Monday.
Four heavily armed men stormed into the rehabilitation center El Camino, lined the interns up against a patio wall, and opened fire. The reported ages of those killed ranged from 19 to 56 years old.
The assailants escaped in at least two late model vehicle, the news agency said.
The dead were identified as: Irineo Godinez Garcia, 47; Antonio Mesa Contreras, 56; Bernabe Alvarez Piceno, 35; Jose Lopez Sauceda, 28; Fabian Gonzalez Zea, 19; Juan Daniel Casi Esquer, 32; Wilson Ramírez Pena, 42; Joaquin García Hernandez, 39; Jorge Palacio Goya, 37; Pedro Villegas, 30; Juan Roberto Sanchez Ortega, 30; Edwin Vargas Avila, 33; and Salvador Bustos, 30.
Those who were in the rooms on the second floor managed to save their lives.
""We were in the living room watching a movie,we watch movies every Sunday, they were all in the room. I had just went out to buy a pizza and when I returned I saw what happened. Thank God I was not there, said one survivor.
A police officer observes the drug rehabilitation center in Tijuana
The survivors told police investigators the attack, from beginning to end, lasted no more than 5 minutes. Preliminary reports state more than 150 AR-15 casings were found at the scene.
Relatives of the victims arrive at the drug rehabilitation center in Tijuana
Within minutes of the attack, an unknown voice interrupted the police radio frequency and announced: "This is just the beginning, we will execute one person for each of the 134 tons of marijuana you took from us".
The 134 tons of drugs referred to, were seized by members of the Municipal Public Security and the Mexican Army on October 18th along the Tijuana border.
Eleven suspected drug traffickers under the command of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada were also arrested after the historical seize.
This is an unprecedented event in the city of Tijuana where previously there had been no executions in rehabilitation centers.
Photo taken at dawn today, the entrance to the drug rehabilitation center in Tijuana (Mexico), where thirteen inmates were killed in Sunday night.
