GRAPHIC — Cartel Gunmen Target Law Enforcement in Mexican Border State Capital Turf Fight

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — Cartels are attacking law enforcement officials from different agencies in this city as part of an ongoing struggle for territorial control. The efforts also led to the deaths of two innocent victims.

Ciudad Victoria is experiencing an escalation of violence between members of the Old School Zetas, supported by the Gulf Cartel, against their splintered rivals primarily based in Nuevo Laredo.

The violence began recently in Colonia Las Brisas in southern Ciudad Victoria. In that attack, a group of hooded assassins entered the house of 48-year-old prison guard Juan Jose Hernandez and began firing. Hernandez was only wounded, but the shooters killed his daughter, Alondra Guadalupe Hernandez, 21. The group managed to escape in a truck.

One day after the initial attack, a group of hitmen carried out a second execution in the Tamatan neighborhood. Assassins killed a local man and his daughter-in-law at a food stand.

In another attack, assassins executed an agent of the State Investigative Police on Calle America de Juarez. The officer, identified as Oscar Alberto Anzures Delgado, was conducting an interview when he received several fatal bullet wounds.

In another attack, two gunmen shot and killed Angel Mata Garcia in his home–another prison guard in Ciudad Victoria. The shooters were captured after a car accident.

Mata’s niece, Diana Sarai Terán Mata, was the victim of another attack where her companion died. Diana was arriving home in a Nissan Altima when a group of men shot at the vehicle, which injured her and killed the driver. The woman received bullet wounds in the thorax and leg.

Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities.  The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “Francisco Morales” from Tamaulipas