JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – Stray dogs have led police to skeletal remains in the western outskirts of the city near a highway where 21 bodies have been abandoned in the past three months.
Police arrived at the Puerto La Paz neighborhood on Wednesday after neighbors called to report dogs unearthing a human skull and leaving it at a home on the corner of Guerrero and Terrazas streets.
Officers recovered the skull and searched for additional skeletal remains, but found no more bones, police told a KTSM/Border Report camera crew. Investigators remained in the area interviewing neighbors.
The neighborhood is a short distance away from the Camino Real highway where the bodies of multiple homicide victims have been abandoned in the past three months.
Also on Wednesday, neighbors called police to a home in the Felipe Angels neighborhood near the Rio Grande in reference to shots fired. A man presumed to be the occupant was shot near the entrance to the property. Neighbors told police that stray dogs had begun chewing on the body.
News video shows bloodied blankets where the man’s body fell. It was the 14th homicide in the city in the first three days of April.
ProVideo in Juarez, Mexico, contributed to this report.
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