Four young people found slain in Tijuana

TIJUANA, Mexico, May 14 (UPI) -- Four homicide victims, two young women and two young men, were found in a van with California license plates in Tijuana, Mexico, police said.

At least three of the victims were from Chula Vista, a California town just north of the border, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Thursday. The two women, Brianna Hernandez Aguilera, 19, and Carmen Jimenez Ramos Chavez, 20, were reported missing to police in Chula Vista by their parents around the time their bodies were found at 1 a.m. Saturday.

The bodies were covered with blankets, and the van was parked on a residential street.

The Baja California Attorney General identified the men as Oscar Jorge Garcia Cota, 23, and Luis Antonio Games, 21.

A woman who described herself as the mother of one of Garcia's friends told the newspaper at a rosary service that his family are "very nice people."

"In Tijuana, the violence is terrible," she said. "If you party over there, you don't know who those people are. That's why I don't let my son go over there."

The two women left Ramos's house at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Lt. Scott Arsenault of the Chula Vista Police said. He said their mothers became worried late Friday because Ramos and Hernandez were not responding to cell phone calls.