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3-year-old boy gunned down in Juárez home; fleeing couple arrested in slaying

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- A three-year-old boy and his stepfather were shot and killed Thursday night in their Juárez home.

The boy's mother was also wounded in the attack, according to ABC-7's newsgathering partner Canal 44.

Canal 44 reported Friday that a 20-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man were arrested by Juarez police on murder charges after witnesses saw them fleeing the home in the Puerto La Paz neighborhood.

Authorities have not reveled a motive behind the killings.

(Jesús Daniel AL, 19 and Karla Yajaira JP, 20, arrested for murder.)
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