4 Americans Strangled, Stabbed in Tijuana

Murdered California residents told friends they were going clubbing in Mexico

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted May 15, 2009 4:59 AM CDT

(Newser) – The bound, beaten, strangled, and stabbed bodies of four young Americans have been found in a van in Tijuana, AP reports. The the two men and two women left their homes in the San Diego and Chula Vista areas last week to visit Mexican nightclubs.

"How often do you have a quadruple murder? If that happened here, there would be an outrage,” a Chula Vista police official told the San Diego-Union-Tribune. "I don't think kids should be going to Tijuana right now. They ran into the wrong people, obviously.”

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Police in Tijuana have found the bodies of four murdered US citizens who had crossed the border from California to visit town nightclubs. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

Soldiers stand guard in front of a drug lab in the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

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EEspinosadelosTj-SD

Mar 15, 2011 7:32 PM CDT

After my uncle "Garde" died they had a wake and a ceremony the next day and I had stayed the night at the wake inside the building and it could be a nice place for the family to visit for a memorable reason(time) and sometimes the area or town could be good or bad too and had those friend or enemy visits and now or recently then 2007-? it is friend no enemy neighbor and friend or enemy friend(?) (and before they had check and make sure the friend was a friend years ago they did this before) why because there were shootouts and when they(gangs(Cartels?) or other related members) came shooting and many innocents died from that and many of them were very young ones. Instead of having a ceremony or a wake there you could have it at another place near the Tijuana Central freeway.

Shannonals

May 24, 2009 9:31 AM CDT

With all the drug crimes and murders taking place in Mexico, why would you even go there?

Guest

May 16, 2009 1:32 AM CDT

Parents should step up to the plate and talk frankly to their kids about the current unstable state of affairs south of us right now.

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4 Americans Strangled, Stabbed in Tijuana