Airman's Killers Arrested

Mexican authorities arrested two suspects on the slaying of a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant earlier this month in a Juárez strip club.

The two "sicarios," or hit men, have confessed to being part of the Juárez cartel group "La Linea" and to have carried out several slayings, including those of Staff Sgt. David Booher and five other people at the Amadeus club, said Enrique Torres, Joint Operation Chihuahua spokesman, in a news release.

Authorities identified those arrested as José Gabriel "El 12" Moreno, 29, and Juan Pablo "El 14" González Favela, 19.

On Nov. 4, a group of gunmen entered and opened fire in the strip club on Ejercito Nacional Avenue. According to his friends, Booher got shot when he tried to help one of the wounded victims. Police found his body in a VIP section of the club.

Booher, 26, a medic, was stationed at Holloman Air Force Base . He was raised by his widowed mother in Juárez and his late father was a U.S. citizen.

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Slain airman grew up in Juárez

By Darren Meritz and Adriana Gómez Licón /
El Paso Times

EL PASO -- David Booher, a model and actor before becoming a medic in the Air Force, died at the hands of masked gunmen in a Juárez strip club.

Booher, 26, was raised by his widowed mother in Juárez. He went on to become a staff sergeant and was stationed at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, but he had a keen understanding of the violence in Juárez, a friend said Thursday.

"A member of his family was kidnapped and murdered" in Mexico, said John Boyle, who served with Booher in the Air Force and now lives in San Diego.

Booher was one of six men killed when gunmen stormed the Amadeus club at midnight Wednesday.

A preliminary report released Thursday by the Chihuahua attorney general said investigators discovered Booher's body in a VIP section of the club. Somebody shot him in the head after he tried to help one of the victims.

In addition to Booher, police identified those killed as Omar Osvaldo García Ca brales, 32; Juan Antonio Hinojosa Maldonado, 29; Alvaro Dean Márquez, 25; Luis Fabián Carbajal Hernández, 24; and Luis Davis Tarín Triana, 30.

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Ten Executed in Juarez

Four men were reportedly lined up against a wall and shot execution style on Wednesday afternoon in the second multiple killing that day in Juárez.

The four men, who appeared to be in their early 20s, were killed about 12:30 p.m. on Antonio Zuñiga and Emilio Uranga streets in south Juárez, Chihuahua state police said. The men had been shot in the head.

Early Wednesday, six people were killed, including a member of the U.S. Air Force, and 10 others wounded in a shooting at the Amadeus strip club.

A spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office said David Booher Montanez, 26, a member of the U.S. Air Force was among six people killed at the Amadeus strip club on Ejecito Nacional boulevard.

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