Weekend marks Villas De Salvarcar massacre 6-year anniversary

On Jan. 30, 2010, family and friends living in a working-class neighborhood were celebrating a teen’s birthday.

A little after midnight armed gunmen in two trucks blocked off the street and opened fire at three homes.The last house the gunmen entered is where residents were celebrating that special day and a majority of the people were killed.

When it was over, the walls were covered in blood and bullets holes. The youngest victim was a 15-year-old boy.

One Juarez resident told ABC-7 in a 2010 interview, “It must have been scary being in a party celebrating something and then having people come into your house and just shooting at everybody.”

Juarez residents were shocked. “Not even at home people can be at peace,” said a woman ABC-7 interviewed in 2010.

In the following days hundreds of people visited the home calling the acts of murder a tragedy.

Seven men were arrested in connection with the massacre. Juarez police said the men were said to be part of local drug cartels.

Saturday evening friends and family of the victims held a memorial in honor of the victims.