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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on June 05, 2018, 03:26:09 pm
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Two US retirees, dog found shot to death in Mexico
Updated 1:42 AM; Posted 1:40 AM
SAN DIEGO -- Like their fellow Americans in the coastal town of Bahia de los Angeles on the Gulf of California, Jo Anne Butler and Ray Ball kept returning, year after year, drawn by the small-town feel, the area's stark natural beauty, the warm waters that lapped almost at their door, friends said.
But the shooting deaths of the two U.S. retirees together with their dog early Saturday at their waterfront house south of town has shattered the tranquillity of this quiet community some 380 miles from the U.S. border. Sustained largely by tourism and fishing, Bahia has a year-round population of 1,000, but is also a part-time residence for more than 100 Americans, according to local authorities.
"We have no memory of having a shooting here," said Tom Mitchell, a San Diego resident who has had a home in Bahia de los Angeles for four decades. "This has taken it to a level that no one here has experienced."
Read more at: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/06/two_us_retirees_dog_found_shot.html (http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/06/two_us_retirees_dog_found_shot.html)
Wikipedia entry on Bahia de los Angeles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%ADa_de_los_%C3%81ngeles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%ADa_de_los_%C3%81ngeles)
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A lot of American expat types live in Mexico, some say, "yeah, well the violence doesn't really touch us", now, usually, they live more in those states near Acapulco but it's worthy noting this incident. Actually, those states near Acapulco are among the more violent ones. This place in the story seems to be South of California on the Baja peninsula.
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Poor guy had a bat and the bad guys had guns.
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LOL, retire in Mehico... no thanks.
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Never mind calling MS13 animals, there's plenty on the loose already who aren't MS13. A heinous incident again.
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Never mind calling MS13 animals, there's plenty on the loose already who aren't MS13. A heinous incident again.
And, besides, MS13 is from El Salvador, not Mexico.
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LOL, retire in Mehico... no thanks.
If I wanted to do that I'd move to 3rd world country like LA.
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And, besides, MS13 is from El Salvador, not Mexico.
That doesn't mean animals don't exist elsewhere and for the record:
MS-13
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mara Salvatrucha (MS), also known as MS-13 (the 13 representing their Sureño affiliation), is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-13
Yes, without a doubt, they are mainly Salvadorans.