Ciudad Juárez rehab center attack
The Ciudad Juárez rehab center attack was a shooting that occurred at 7:15 pm on September 2, 2009, at the El Aliviane drug treatment clinic in the city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Seventeen men were killed in the attack, and another died the following day from injuries, bringing the total killed to eighteen. Authorities believe the attack was part of a turf battle, one of the deadliest such shootings in Ciudad Juárez since President Felipe Calderón initiated a 2006 crackdown on gangs dealing drugs. On the same day as the attack, Michoacán's deputy director of public safety, José Manuel Revuelta was killed alongside two bodyguards after two weeks in that post, the highest profile person to be killed in Mexico's drug violence. This rehab center shooting was described as a "copycat incident" to one where eight people were killed in a similar shooting in 2008. Background El Aliviane is one of 62 rehabilitation centers that operate in Ciudad Juárez, a city of 1.5 million people. It is privately run and located in a neighborhood next to the United States border. The facilities are housed in a converted home. State security minister Víctor Valencia de los Santos told El Universal prior