Mexico outraged by killing of anti-crime crusader

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (AP) - Mexican anger over the creaking court system, an inefficient flooded after her mother, who fought against the murderer of her daughter two years of struggle to bring justice to be killed, perhaps the same man accused of the murder of a teenager.

Security tape masked men in the car pulling in front of the city governor's office Chihuahua. Appeared to exchange words with anti-crime crusader Maris Ortiz Escobedo, who was holding a vigil outside.

She tried to run the streets, but the gunman chased him and shot in the head on Thursday, said Jorge Gonzalez, the Special Prosecutor of crime prevention.

Escobedo took an ambulance to the hospital where he died within a few minutes.

On Friday, a group of protesters gathered outside the Interior Ministry in Mexico City to protest the murder of a short battle the police while chanting "Not one more death!"

And now the north of Ciudad Juarez, where the daughter is 17 years of Escobedo's body was found burned and the components of the package in June 2009 activists protested outside the headquarters of state law, with signs demanding "Justice for Maris.

Murder in Mexico on Thursday that the victim is suffering, without protection, "the veteran anti-crime activist Alejandro Marti said.

The scandal led to the suspension of three judges who had ordered the release of a key suspect in the murder of his daughter after he was acquitted by the court in April for lack of evidence.

The man, Sergio Barraza, is now the main suspect in the death of his mother, said Carlos Gonzalez, a spokesman for the office of State Attorney General, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juarez, where he is located.

Frayre daughter Ruby Escobedo Escobedo, disappeared in Ciudad Juarez, opposite El Paso, Texas, 2008.

After the body was discovered last year, mother's campaign, quick conviction. Escobedo Rallies staged a lot of the naked picture of a flag wrapped her daughter.

"This battle is not just my daughter," Escobedo said through a bullhorn that in March, his voice cracking. "We do not allow a younger woman to be killed in this city."

Three days ago, they planted themselves in front of offices and the governor of Cesar Duarte promised not to move until the investigators showed the success of the case. In an interview with El Diario on Sunday, Escobedo said he got death threats from the Barraza family.

Duarte said that state security agencies had been given custody of Escobedo, even though the distance. He said he did not consider it safe for him to be examined on Thursday.

Duarte was also tops in the court suspended the three judges.

On Friday, President Judge Javier Ramirez Benitez said he would have stopped the investigation. Ramirez Benitez said surveillance gathered earlier this year that it was improperly handled.

Prosecutors said Barraza, Frayre admitted killing his live-in boyfriend and the police took the body. But the courtroom, he shouted his innocence and said he was tortured to admit. The judges ruled in April that prosecutors presented no physical evidence against him.

The case is an example of problems in Chihuahua state judicial system, an early adopter oral tests instead of the closed-door interrogations and filings of documents used in the tests in Mexico.

Despite the training, police, prosecutors, and Chihuahua problems adapting to a system that puts the burden of proof for prosecutors. Many murder cases were excluded for lack of evidence at the hearing, or never.

Often, the police only after the defendants claim that the confessions were made under duress. The newly captured suspect a large part of Mexico is often shown to the press on his face bruised.

Ciudad Juarez police are overwhelmed by gang wars, that one of the most dangerous city in the world was created. More than 3000 people were killed in the city 1.3 million this year alone.

Records obtained by The Associated Press show that last year, when 2,600 people were murdered in Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors, the murder count to 93 and 19 convictions.

Chihuahua judicial shortcomings of years ago, before the new system was implemented, the drug rose to unprecedented heights of violence.

In 1990, hundreds of women killed around Ciudad Juarez, about 100 of them were sexually abused and dumped in the desert.