Mexico kidnapping

Emergency medical services and security are responding to the situation, the governor added. The American citizens crossed into Matamoros, in the northeastern ...

The bodies of the two deceased Americans will be transferred to the U.S. The State Department is "in the process" of repatriating the two deceased victims, spokesperson Ned Price said Tuesday afternoon. The surviving victims were transported to the Port of Entry in Brownsville, where they are receiving medical care at a local hospital, the FBI said in a statement Tuesday. The two survivors were found Tuesday morning in a wooden house in the Lagunona area, outside of Matamoros, Mexican officials said at a news conference. officials are in touch with the families. He underwent surgery in Texas for the wounds, she said. Price said, "We thank our Mexican and U.S. citizens into another vehicle and fled," the embassy said. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement Tuesday that the Department of Justice will do "everything in our power" to hold those responsible for the attack to account. "Shortly after crossing into Mexico, unidentified gunmen fired upon the passengers in the vehicle," the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said. One of the deceased was also found inside the house, and the second was found outside it, a source close to the investigation told ABC News.

Latavia “Tay” McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown and Eric James Williams were abducted at gunpoint last week by unidentified assailants in Matamoros.

[The search for the disappeared points to Mexico’s darkest secrets](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/mexico-losing-control/mexico-disappeared-drug-war/?itid=lb_losing-control-how-criminal-groups-are-transforming-mexico_1) [The sniper rifles flowing to Mexican cartels show a decade of U.S. It’s one of six Mexican states to which the State Department advises Americans against traveling, citing the risk of crime and kidnapping. Barrios Mojica said they were found during a “joint search.” Mexican officials said the United States had provided intelligence. The following year, gunmen took at least 193 people off buses, bludgeoned them to death and dumped their bodies in dozens of clandestine graves. They leave a trail of what appears to be blood on the ground. The two survivors were returned to the border; Mexican media showed images of what appeared to be a man and a woman receiving treatment in an ambulance. In January, Texas Monthly published a list of the city’s best taquerias. He said that Mexican authorities were “working and cooperating” with their U.S. On Tuesday, Tamaulipas Attorney General Irving Barrios Mojica said the victims were rescued in an area where the Gulf cartel operates. citizens; they want to avoid drawing the ire of the U.S. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his government will be thorough in its investigation of the kidnapping and killings. There remained no clear explanation for why unarmed Americans who authorities said had no apparent ties to the drug trade would be targeted by organized criminals in Mexico.

Two of the four Americans kidnapped by armed gunmen in a Mexico border city on Friday were found dead and two were found alive, Tamaulipas Gov.

“When I reached out to the doctor’s office they told me that Latavia had reached out to them to ask them for directions because she was lost,” the friend said. Cheryl Orange called police from a Motel 6 in Brownsville Saturday to report that the group had not been heard from since driving toward Matamoros in a rented minivan on Friday morning. The photos also show a woman looking at and then sitting next to three people lying on the ground outside a white minivan. The group of missing Americans grew up together in South Carolina and were bonded “like glue,” Brown’s sister Zalandria Brown told CNN. The US State Department has issued a “Level 4: Do Not Travel” advisory for US citizens thinking of going to Tamaulipas, citing crime and kidnapping. But this time, Burgess was informed by the FBI on Sunday that her daughter had been kidnapped and was in danger. Mexico Secretary of Security Rosa Icela Rodríguez said that authorities in Mexico have been in constant communication with the US ambassador and other US officials since Sunday. Washington McGee’s close friend told CNN the trip was for a cosmetic surgery. They reached out to the doctor’s office for directions on Friday but were struggling to communicate with the office because they had a poor cellphone signal. The woman was hit by a stray bullet almost a block and a half from where the Americans were taken, Tamaulipas Gov. The US citizens have no concerning criminal history that has been identified by investigators, the official said. Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown were found dead, a US official familiar with the ongoing investigation told CNN.

Their fate is confirmed by a Mexican state governor, who says two other Americans are alive.

Matamoros is in Tamaulipas state, one of six Mexican states that the US state department advises travellers not to visit because of "crime and kidnapping". Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said: "We are very sorry that this happened in our country and we send our condolences to the families of the victims, friends, and the United States government, and we will continue doing our work to guarantee peace and tranquillity." The FBI later confirmed that two Americans were found dead and that the other two have been brought to American hospitals for treatment. Two of the four Americans kidnapped at gunpoint in Mexico last week are dead and two are alive and now back in the US, Mexican and US officials say. The two surviving victims were delivered to the US on Tuesday in co-operation with the US consulate in Matamoros, Tamaulipas Attorney General Irving Barrios Mojica Four US citizens were kidnapped by armed men on 3 March while driving into the city of Matamoros in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, across the border from Texas.

The governor of the state of Tamaulipas, where the four Americans were kidnapped at gunpoint on Friday, said only two were found alive.

He's a rapper, a songwriter and a poet," Williams said. "This is like a bad dream you wish you could wake up from," she said. The FBI said the gunmen moved all four into another vehicle and fled the scene. But after just two hours in the city, they got caught up in deadly gunfire. She was crying because her brother got killed and she watched him die. He added: "We thank our Mexican and U.S. "To see a member of your family thrown in the back of a truck and dragged, it is just unbelievable." "We're providing all appropriate assistance to them and their families. The department didn't name them, but the mother of LaTavia Washington McGee At least citizens are unacceptable no matter where or under what circumstances they occur," he added. "And we're going to work closely with the Mexican government to ensure that justice is done in this case."

Two Americans are dead and two others survived after being kidnapped and assaulted by armed men in Mexico Friday, Mexican officials announced Tuesday, ...

State Department’s travel advisory for Tamaulipas, the Mexican state where Matamoros is, [currently advises](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/mexico-travel-advisory.html#Tamaulipas%20state) U.S. [said](https://mx.usembassy.gov/fbi-seeks-publics-help-in-locating-u-s-citizens/). consulate in Matamoros has [posted](https://mx.usembassy.gov/security-alert-matamoros-10-23-2021/) security alerts warning of drug cartel violence including kidnappings. An innocent Mexican citizen was also killed during the violent attack, [according to](https://mx.usembassy.gov/ambassador-salazars-statement-about-kidnapping-incident-in-matamoros/) Ken Salazar, the U.S. siblings who [disappeared](https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Mother-says-her-children-were-beaten-held-in-a-5862300.php) while visiting their father near Matamoros were found shot to death and decaying in the sun. In 2010, disagreements within the cartel led to a break up, which has left smaller gangs competing for the area, according to a 2019 Congressional Research Service [report](https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R41576/36). After the Americans crossed the border they were met by an unidentified gunman who first fired at the minivan’s occupants and then moved them into another vehicle which fled the scene, the FBI [said](https://mx.usembassy.gov/fbi-seeks-publics-help-in-locating-u-s-citizens/). In a [video](https://twitter.com/DavidWolf777/status/1631812544682917888) circulating online, which appears to show how at least part of the incident played out, armed men drag the four Americans—one who appears alive, one who appears to move their head, and two who appear injured or dead—to the bed of a white pickup truck. [told](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/americas/mexico-matamoros-us-citizens-kidnapping-tuesday/index.html) CNN. [told](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/world/americas/americans-kidnapped-mexico.html) the New York Times. [told](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/americas/mexico-matamoros-us-citizens-kidnapping-tuesday/index.html) CNN, adding that one of the Americans is severely injured. [multiple news outlets](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/americas/mexico-matamoros-us-citizens-kidnapping-tuesday/index.html) reported.

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico -- A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery ended with two Americans dead — and two others found alive in a rural area near the ...

He referenced arrests in the 2019 killings of nine U.S.-Mexican dual citizens in Sonora near the U.S. The gunmen walked one of the Americans into the bed of a white pickup, then dragged and loaded up the three others. But from looking at his brother’s Facebook posts, he thinks his brother did not consider the trip dangerous. government has every right to be upset by the violence. media’s coverage of the missing Americans, accusing them of sensationalism. Amid the violence, thousands of Mexicans have disappeared in Tamaulipas state alone. The two dead — Shaeed Woodard, age 33, and Zindell Brown, in his mid-20s — will be turned over to U.S. Video and photographs taken during and immediately after Friday's abduction show the Americans’ white minivan sitting beside another vehicle, with at least one bullet hole in the driver's side window. The convoy of ambulances and SUVs was escorted by Mexican military Humvees and National Guard trucks with mounted machine guns. soil on Tuesday in Brownsville, the southernmost tip of Texas and just across the border from Matamoros. Their minivan crashed and was fired on shortly after they crossed into the border city of Matamoros on Friday as drug cartel factions tore through the streets, the region’s governor said. The survivors were taken to Valley Regional Medical Center with an FBI escort, the Brownsville Herald reported.

The 4 U.S. citizens were abducted last week shortly after crossing the border into Mexico.

“We will do everything in our power to identify, find, and hold accountable the individuals responsible for this attack on American citizens.” She declined to provide names of those abducted. The four U.S. law enforcement partners for their efforts to find these innocent victims, and the task forward is to ensure that justice is done.” “Two U.S. citizens killed in the same incident were also recovered,” department spokesperson Ned Price said during a news conference.

Gunfire Americans encountered in a Mexican town that killed two is nearly impossible to prevent and signifies the perils of the southern border, ...

citizens to various places, including a clinic, “to create confusion and to interrupt the rescue work.” The U.S. Two of the U.S. “If it gets to the point where the FBI needs to get involved, you’ve already lost. “If you’re dealing with hotheads, and it may not have anything to do with money … “When the FBI gets involved, it means that someone has reported it to the FBI — it’s gone messy.” This does not appear to have been a kidnap for ransom, and there are a lot of unanswered questions.” “It looks like it was potentially a random act of violence. “The big takeout is the border is wide open, and drug cartels are operating and controlling the border,” said former FBI special agent Peter Yachmetz, who was a certified hostage negotiator. The group was said to have been in the country for a cosmetic procedure. [group of U.S. citizens drove](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fbi-offers-50k-reward-safe-return-4-us-citizens-kidnapped-gunpoint-mex-rcna73520) a minivan with North Carolina plates [ into Matamoros, Tamaulipas](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fbi-offers-50k-reward-safe-return-4-us-citizens-kidnapped-gunpoint-mex-rcna73520), on Friday.

According to the Mexican Council for the Medical Tourism Industry, nearly one million Americans travel to Mexico for medical care each year. For many border ...

While some border towns have become especially hostile for immigrants and asylum seekers trying to enter the US, violence against Americans in these regions is still rare. You can get your teeth cleaned or an implant for a fraction of the cost of what you get in the US." "It's economics," said Néstor Rodriguez, an immigration studies expert and professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Border towns like Matamoros are among the most dangerous in Mexico. Other Mexico border states also have travel warnings. Two have been confirmed dead, and two survived the ordeal.

Authorities were still investigating how the two Americans died, and one Mexican official said the most likely explanation for the group's abduction was a case ...

Mexican President Lopez Obrador vowed to bring the killers to justice. ABC News on Monday named the four Americans as Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown, Latavia McGee and Eric James Williams. She was forced into the back before the men dragged in two prone figures. The U.S. A 24-year-old man guarding them at the cabin was arrested at the scene. officials at the border, and the two bodies were to follow in the next few hours, Villarreal said.

Two Americans are back in the U.S. and the other two were killed in a kidnapping in Mexico. One of the survivors lives in the Triad near Winston-Salem.

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