Juárez police made seven arrests in connection with two homicides during the weekend, including two teenage boys accused of fatally stabbing a man in a barbershop.

Early Saturday, police arrested three men and two women in connection with the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery at a home in the colonia del Progreso area, police officials said.

Officials said the group was arrested soon after the shooting when police stopped a Jeep Cherokee and found a cellphone and $1,800 allegedly taken in the robbery and a .38-caliber revolver allegedly used to shoot Ricardo Pizarro Figueroa, 45.

Police arrested Claudia Iveth Garcia de Leon, 23; Diana Magali Andrade Adame, 23; Arturo Rodriguez Zapata 26; Luis Alberto Leyva Rios, 31; and Gerardo Casas Casas, 23, who police say is the shooter.

Late Friday night, police were flagged down by a woman who said someone was yelling for help inside a barbershop on Avenida Manuel J. Clouthier, officials said.

Inside the shop, police found a man stabbed to death and two boys, ages 13 and 14, hiding.

The boys, whose clothes were stained with blood, allegedly told police they grabbed nearby knives during an argument and stabbed shopkeeper Victor Dorado Fernandez, 35.

The deaths were among nine homicides in Juárez during the weekend, one of the deadliest weekends in months.
