Authorities in Mexico said Iram Uranga Armendáriz shot and killed three men and critically wounded a Chicago teen over an argument about a $250,000 debt.
CHICAGO -- A man has been sentenced to more than 66 years in prison in Mexico for a shooting that left a 14-year-old Chicago boy in a coma, and killed his father, uncle, and a third man last month in Durango two days after Christmas.The U.S. State Department has warned against travel in the Durango area of Mexico , due to a surge in gang-related crime. Authorities in Mexico said 38-year-old Vicente Peña Jr.
27, Armendáriz went to a home in the town of Cienega De San José with his partner for a family celebration, where Fernández and Peña also were present.After getting out of his car, Armendáriz spoke to the two men about a $250,000 debt they owed him after giving them an advance on the purchase of a piece of land in the mountains of the nearby Altares community, which he no longer wanted to buy.
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