Mexico investigates police in shooting of pregnant American teen
Source: Reuters
Mexican authorities are investigating police in the northern city of Reynosa on the Texas border after a pregnant 14-year-old American girl was shot and injured during a high-speed car chase, the local government said on Tuesday.
The incident took place late on Sunday near the bridge that links Reynosa with the United States, when the girl and a friend were pulling away from a convenience store in a pick-up truck, the attorney general's office in the state of Tamaulipas said.
It said police chased the vehicle and shot at its tires when the driver ignored an order to halt and sped off. When police reached the vehicle after it stopped, the male passenger had fled and the girl was sitting inside wounded.
The girl, who is four months pregnant, and her unborn child were out of danger, the office said.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/12/us-mexico-violence-idUSKCN0IV27120141112
Other sources like El Universal Mexico and KGBT identify the girl as Indira Michelle Blanco-González. El Mañana in Reynosa has more details, too, showing that the shooting was at an Oxxo convenience store near the bridge connecting Reynosa, TAM and Pharr, TX. To look up this location on google maps street view look up Luis Donaldo Colosio Blvd west of Av. Puente Pharr.
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