Witnesses: Consulate employee's killing was error
Source: Associated Press
Witnesses: Consulate employee's killing was error
By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA, Associated Press | February 5, 2014 | Updated: February 5, 2014 8:09pm
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The 2010 killing of an employee of the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and two others may have been a fatal case of mistaken identity, according to witnesses who testified Wednesday in the trial of an alleged gang member.
Former Barrio Azteca gang member Jesus "Camello" Chavez testified that his gang duties included monitoring radio communication between gang leaders and that he heard them say the shooting of Leslie Ann Enriquez Catton, her husband and the husband of another employee was "a mistake."
Chavez testified in El Paso in the trial of Arturo Gallegos Castrellon, who is accused of ordering the March 13, 2010, shootings in Juarez of Catton and her husband, Arthur Redfels. Also killed was Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, husband of another consulate employee.
FBI agent Carlos Hernandez testified that Gallegos Castrellon told him the people killed "were not intended targets."
Chavez testified earlier this week that about 10 days before the March 13, 2010, shooting, Gallegos Castrellon had ordered him to be on the look-out for a white Honda Pilot SUV believed to have people affiliated with the Sinaloa Cartel.
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