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.

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."

They were abducted and a Mexican citizen was killed after gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, the FBI said.

citizens that this particular part of Mexico is a "Level 4: Do Not Travel," which is the highest warning in the U.S. But the cartel has lost territory and influence in recent years to its rivals, That official also spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the case. Instead, the four friends were attacked shortly after arriving in the city. [told the Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/mexico-americans-kidnapped-killed-north-south-carolina-f77a0d1d0cc60a1efa7adb37a73428a2) via text message that she was with Williams, McGee, Brown and Woodard. "The investigation is in its earliest days," Price said. The van sits on the side of the road after apparently colliding with a red SUV. In the video, one woman is forced by men armed with guns to climb into the bed of a white pickup truck. He declined to share additional information about the investigation into their abduction. The video appears to show some of them may be wounded. Earlier, CBS News learned the two Americans killed were identified as Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard. Photographs from the scene viewed by the AP show a white minivan with the driver's side window shot and all of the doors open.

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.

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.

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.

Separately, Zalandria Brown, of Florence, South Carolina, told The Associated Press her younger brother, Zindell Brown, was one of the four kidnapping victims ...

A full facelift in the U.S. In Mexico the cost is about half, at $5,150. "I have a consult today who had a tummy tuck in Mexico and now has a bad infection," Hermann said. [study](https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/executive_briefings/chambers_health-related_travel_final.pdf) from the U.S. Americans should be cautious about traveling for surgery — even within the U.S. And even those who have dental insurance find that it doesn't cover much, often failing to pay for expensive work such as implants or crowns. Still, the kidnapping in Mexico highlights broader questions about the risks of traveling for surgery, said Dr. Elective surgeries are increasingly fueling medical tourism because the prices outside the U.S. [said](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kidnapped-americans-mexico-found-update-mexican-officials/) Monday that the Americans had crossed the border to buy medicine and ended up caught in the crossfire between two armed groups. Attacks "almost never happens to a medical traveler," Woodman said. The pandemic temporarily put a halt to medical tourism when borders were closed, but it has since rebounded, he added. to seek care is extremely rare, said Josef Woodman, CEO of Patients Beyond Borders, a medical tourism group.

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.

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.

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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Two of the four U.S. citizens who went missing after a violent kidnapping in Mexico last week have been found dead and two are alive, Mexican and U.S. ...

"All four Americans were placed in a vehicle and taken from the scene by armed men," the office said. "Our thoughts are with the families of these individuals and we stand ready to provide all appropriate consular assistance." López Obrador said Monday that the four Americans had crossed the border to purchase medicine and found themselves caught in crossfire between two groups of armed individuals. agencies were coordinating with their counterparts in Mexico to recover the missing people. He also lamented American media coverage of the kidnapping and accused U.S. Whether the bodies of the deceased individuals were transported along with them wasn't immediately known. All four people had driven from Brownsville, Texas, to Mexico on Friday in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates. "The investigation is in its earliest days," Price told reporters. Officials were still "in the process of working to repatriate the remains" of the two victims who were killed, Price said. Both survivors had been returned to the U.S. Earlier, CBS News learned the other two Americans were identified as Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard. Américo Villarreal said one of the surviving U.S.

Two Americans have returned to the US from Mexico and are being treated at a hospital after an armed kidnapping left two of their friends dead and spurred a ...

They came across a video that McFadden described as showing the kidnapping, and recognized her clothing, she said. People had “been calling all of their phones and it’s just going to voicemail,” said Washington McGee’s friend, who did not want to be named. This was not the first time Washington McGee had traveled to Mexico for a procedure, her mother said. She made the comments to CNN affiliate WPDE. The Americans were finally found at a house outside Matamoros on Tuesday morning, the attorney general said. Their car was intercepted by unidentified gunmen who fired upon the Americans, loaded them into a vehicle and took them from the scene, according to the FBI. Williams had been shot in the legs three times and was brought to a hospital in Texas to undergo surgery, his wife, Michele Williams, told CNN. The video shows the woman being pulled or pushed onto the bed of the truck by two unidentified people as a third visibly armed man watches before the men appear to drag at least two limp people onto the truck bed. A Mexican official said Tuesday that the gunmen were driving a pickup truck. It is among more than two dozen other states under some level of the State Department’s travel advisory, all of which cite crime as a reason for precautions. Victims Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown were found dead at the scene, a US official familiar with the ongoing investigation told CNN. [The four Americans](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/06/americas/fbi-mexico-kidnapping-us-citizens/index.html) were found in a “wooden house” in or near the Mexican border city of Matamoros, where they were kidnapped on Friday, Tamaulipas Governor Américo Villarreal announced Tuesday.

Retracing the steps of a violent kidnapping after 2 Americans found dead in Mexico · Latavia Washington McGee, South Carolina. · Shaeed Woodard, a cousin of ...

law enforcement agencies](https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1161380767/americans-kidnapped-mexico-matamoros) are working with the Mexican authorities to find the Americans, says Ken Salazar, the U.S. [died at the scene of the abduction](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/world/americas/americans-kidnapped-mexico.html), a Mexican official said. The Americans were [found in Tecolote](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/07/mexico-americans-kidnap-matamoros-medical/), a village about 15 miles from Matamoros. The other two Americans are alive, and one of them is injured, said Tamaulipas Gov. in a convoy of Mexican ambulances and SUVs. They were escorted by Mexican military Humvees, armored vehicles, state police and National Guard in trucks with mounted .50-caliber machine guns, said Tamaulipas state Attorney General Irving Barrios Mojica. The other American is reportedly unharmed. [gunmen opened fire](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/07/mexico-americans-kidnap-matamoros-medical/) on one woman and three men in a white minivan shortly after they drove into the Mexican border town of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, from Brownsville, Texas, on Friday. CNN and others reported the Americans The pickup drives away. The survivors have A white pickup stops nearby, armed men emerge and force the Americans into the bed of the truck.

One of them has gunshot wounds and two of their friends were killed by gangs at a Mexico border town.

A video of the kidnapping shows the four Americans being loaded into a pickup truck by heavily armed men. One is manhandled on to the vehicle while others appear to be unconscious and are dragged to the truck. Ms Williams said her husband Eric Williams was emotional as he spoke to her on the phone as he had considered Brown and Woodard to be like his "brothers".

A deadly Mexico kidnapping revealed this week the dangers Americans face in their pursuit of health care abroad as medical tourism continues to escalate.

"The reason more Americans have become medical tourists is simply that they are seeking less expensive health care," the American Journal reported in 2018. "Especially if you're in a lot of these border areas or contested territory," he continued. It is unlikely the U.S. to other countries in the pursuit of foreign medical treatments doubled over a 10-year period. "The violence is a symptom also of a widened portfolio that groups compete over. [medical procedure](https://www.foxnews.com/health/medical-tourism-what-to-do-about-costly-dental-work) in Mexico. Despite these hurdles, the U.S. You might end up being an unintended casualty in any cartel violence," Juan Cruz, former National Security Council senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs, told to Fox News Digital. "That includes, for instance, agricultural markets and natural resources — and migration." Two of the four Americans were killed. [TWO OF THE FOUR AMERICANS KIDNAPPED IN MEXICO ARE DEAD, TWO ALIVE: REPORT](https://www.foxnews.com/world/two-the-four-americans-kidnapped-mexico-are-dead-two-alive-report) [deadly Mexico kidnapping](https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/location-mexico) revealed the dangers Americans face in their pursuit of health care abroad as medical tourism continues to grow in response to high medical costs at home.

Here's what experts say about the risks and promises of traveling abroad for cost-efficient care.

And any procedure carries the risk of complications, and in another country, a patient may need to stay longer than expected for follow-up care or to recover, Dr. Andrea Miller, a clinical pharmacist in Arizona who led the study, was struck by just how widespread advertising, and infrastructure, for medical services was in a Mexican border town. The most common destinations tend to be in Mexican states along the border, like Tamaulipas and Nuevo León, or those with popular beach towns, like Baja California Sur and Quintana Roo, according to Denise Rodriguez, who is studying for a Ph.D. Patients embarking on medical tourism seek out care on their own and pay out of pocket, Dr. That includes not just the doctor performing surgery, for example, but also the person administering anesthesia or interpreting X-rays. The C.D.C. After a drop in medical tourism during the pandemic, Mr. Josef Woodman, the chief executive of Patients Beyond Borders, which serves as an international health care travel consulting agency and patient guide for people seeking care abroad, estimates that about 1.2 million Americans per year travel to Mexico for medical procedures. Many people cross the border for pharmaceuticals at greatly decreased prices from what you pay in the U.S. [kidnapped in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/world/americas/americans-kidnapped-mexico.html), after crossing the border from Texas. A sister of one of the victims said they had gone to Mexico so one of them could get an abdominoplasty, better known as a tummy tuck. The National Exterior Commerce Bank in Mexico estimated that the industry was worth $5 billion before it declined during the coronavirus pandemic.

The four Americans -- Eric James Williams, Zindell Brown and cousins Latavia "Tay" McGee and Shaeed Woodard -- drove Friday morning into Matamoros, Mexico, ...

The two Americans found dead had blankets or sheets on top of them, a source close to the investigation told ABC News. We're going to work closely with the Mexican government to ensure that justice is done in this case." Williams and McGee survived the kidnapping. "Our family waited for any news about my brother's return, but he won't be coming home alive." She said McGee had no major injuries. Embassy in Mexico City said.

Barbara Burgess confirmed to ABC 15 that her daughter, LaTavia McGee, is alive and in an Texas hospital after being kidnapped last week in Mexico.

Eric Williams was one of four Americans kidnapped in Mexico. Two of them died.

During a news conference on Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre suggested that Americans should limit their activity in Mexico. officials are working to bring their bodies back to the U.S. Eric Williams was one of four Americans who were kidnapped after crossing into Mexico.

Four Americans were kidnapped by armed men last week soon after crossing into the Mexican border city of Matamoros. Two of them were killed and two survived ...

And the thousands and thousands of kidnapped Mexicans?" "Mexican institutions have a limited set of capabilities. The armed gang will have understood immediately that the full force of a joint operation by US and Mexican federal law enforcement was going to be turned in their direction. However, the attorney general's office in the state of Tamaulipas said the theory that this was a case of mistaken identity was "strengthening". Most kidnappings are carried out with complete impunity, particularly in the case of undocumented immigrants travelling north to the US. For any Mexican cartel - or even a common criminal gang operating along the border - that will have spelt trouble.