THIRD TEEN IDENTIFIED IN EXECUTION-STYLE SLAYING THAT ALSO KILLED 2 SAN DIEGANS IN TIJUANA

SAN DIEGO — Two San Diego teenagers were killed execution-style in a triple homicide Sunday morning at a Tijuana, Mexico, apartment complex, and Mexican authorities were continuing to search for the assailants.

The victims were Christopher Alexis Gomez, 17, a football player in his senior year at O’Farrell Charter High School, and Juan Suarez-Ojeda, 18, who graduated from Ingenuity Charter School on the shared Encanto campus earlier this year.

The third victim was Angel Said Robles, a 17-year-old Tijuana high schooler.

Gomez’s cousin, Katheryn Garcia, said the trio had gone together to a barbecue in Ensenada, Mexico, last Friday and were supposed to return that same night.

A Tijuana police detective told Gomez’s family the three teens were tortured before they were shot Sunday, Garcia said.

There was no initial indication of what might have led to the brutal killings.

The incident happened in Lomas Verdes, a high-crime area in central Tijuana with high rates of homicide, neighborhood drug dealing and domestic violence.

The semi-clothed bodies of the three victims were found early in the morning in a complex of apartments. The bodies were found outside one of the buildings, and initial police reports stated they had been shot in the head.

Mexican authorities said the San Diegans had no criminal record in Tijuana, but Said had a car theft on his record —a statement Said’s family called “a lie.”