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Caitlin.ann
March 16th, 2010, 03:24 PM
(CNN) -- Lesley Enriquez went to a birthday party and brought her husband and baby daughter along. After the food and cake and singing and children's games were done, the family piled into the car and headed home.

They never made it.

As Enriquez's husband, Arthur Redelfs, pulled away from the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, where the party took place Saturday, a car full of gang members fell in behind them, authorities said.

For unknown reasons, the gang followed the family car through the streets and riddled it with bullets, authorities said. When it was over, 35-year-old Enriquez and Redelfs, who was 34, were dead. Their orphaned daughter was unhurt but terrified in her car seat in back, authorities said.

Enriquez, an employee at the busy consulate, had been four months pregnant.

"Can't wait to go to bed," she had posted with multiple exclamation points on her Facebook page in January. "Between Sweet Pea and our little one on the way I'm getting extremely tired!!!"

Link (http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/03/16/mexico.victims.profile/index.html?hpt=Sbin)

WitchJezebel
March 18th, 2010, 09:07 AM
That's so sad. Our local news is now saying to avoid going to Mexico completely because of all the violence. It's a shame too because many places in Mexico are great vacation spots.

TuathaSidhe
March 18th, 2010, 09:16 AM
my husbands grandfather and wife just got back from Cancun. People have been saying to stay away from Mexico for years. If people stay aware of their surroundings and know where to go and not to go its not extremely dangerous.

WitchJezebel
March 18th, 2010, 09:19 AM
You have a point for sure, the more touristy destinations aren't so bad, but unfortunately there are some places that you definitely want to stay away from now that you didn't have to worry about as much then. I travelled to Mexico alot when I lived in CA and with the drug cartels/gangs/gun runners so out of control there I wouldn't go at all now.

I have a buddy who left for Cancun today, I'm sure he'll be fine there.