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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Baby boy shot in head execution-style alongside his mom, 16, and four other family members murdered in California cartel massacre
2023-01-17
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Six people, including a six-month old baby, a teenage mother and an elderly woman, were killed in a California, Central Valley farming community

  • The local sheriff said it was likely a targeted attack by a drug cartel

  • Massacre occurred around 3:30am Monday in and around a home in Goshen

  • Authorities said they were searching for two suspects and that the killings may have been related to a search warrant carried out last week at one of the homes

  • Sheriff said the level of violence and the manner of the attacks suggested experienced killers

Tulare County, a small agricultural region with a population of less than half a million, has historically played a significant role in the transnational drug trade, transporting drugs from Mexico to various markets in the United States.

The county, which is bisected by the 99 Freeway and has a limited law enforcement presence, acres of open land, and a highly mobile population of farmworkers, has been a haven for drug traffickers since at least the 1970s.

In recent years, the area has also become known for the production of methamphetamine and the cultivation of both legal and illegal marijuana.

Notable and violent figures of Mexico's drug wars, such as former leader of the Zetas cartel, Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, have connections to Tulare County as he was born there.
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