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Warden of Tijuana Prison Slain - Crime: Probe centers on gangs at notorious La Mesa penitentiary. Official is described as a gentle man who refused to use force in recent uprising.

March 10, 1995 | By FRED ALVAREZ and SEBASTIAN ROTELLA, TIMES STAFF WRITERS

Police on Thursday were investigating the latest assassination of a government official in this border city: the ambush murder of the director of the state penitentiary. A gunman killed Jorge Alberto Duarte Castillo, 42, who had worked to keep the peace at the notorious La Mesa prison, in front of his modest, two-story house at 10:45 p.m. Wednesday.