Ciudadamo americano ejecutado en Durango

Director de escuela, Agustin Salcedo, 33, de Los Angeles, CA, fue secuestrado junto a otros cinco hombres de un restaurante en Gomez Palacios, Durango y posteriormente ejecutados.

Fue un acto al azar, el y su esposa visitaban a la familia.

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California school administrator among victims of Mexican violence

The bodies of six men -- including a 33-year-old California school administrator -- were found Thursday in the north-central Mexican state of Durango, hours after they had been abducted from a nearby restaurant, the man's relatives said Friday.

"He was needlessly and senselessly murdered," said Carlos Salcedo about his brother, Agustin "Bobby" Salcedo, of El Monte, east of Los Angeles.

The brother had traveled with his wife to visit her family in Gomez Palacio, he said. They were eating in a restaurant when armed men barged in, forced everyone onto the floor and abducted the six men, Carlos Salcedo said.

At 7 a.m. Thursday, police notified his sister-in-law that they had found her husband's body shot dead, he said.

"All indications are that this was just random, a violent act, just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time," he told reporters in El Monte.

"What we really want to do is just shed a light on this incident and the senseless, violent acts that are happening across the border from us and really just put a spotlight on this and make sure that we find justice."

"He was a brilliant, a bright star for our community, and he as taken from us," said El Monte Mayor Andre Quintero of Salcedo, who served on the city school district board. "He was stolen from us and now we need to hold them accountable for what they did."

A man who answered the phone at Gomez Palacio's Secretariat of Protection and Roads said no one was available Friday to discuss the matter, but local news reports said all six bodies had been found on the side of a nearby canal, with bullet wounds to the head and chest.

Violence in Mexico has been heightened in recent years by drug-related disputes. The country ended 2009 with a record number of drug-related deaths, exceeding the record tally reached in 2008, unofficial counts indicate.

The government has not released official figures, but national media say 7,600 Mexicans lost their lives in the war on drugs in 2009. Mexican President Felipe Calderon said earlier this year that 6,500 Mexicans died in drug violence in 2008.

The vast majority of the deaths have been among criminals, not civilians, Calderon and other Mexican officials have said repeatedly.