Two of the four Americans kidnapped in Mexico were found dead after they went missing last week, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.
The American citizens had crossed into Matamoros, south of Brownsville, Texas, in a white minivan with North Carolina plates. Shortly after entering Mexico, unidentified gunmen shot at the passengers of the vehicle and took them into another car, fleeing the scene.
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The two other citizens were found alive, with one of them injured, Tamaulipas Gov. Americo Villarreal confirmed in a morning news conference with Obrador.
The four Americans, Zindell Brown, Eric James Williams, and cousins Latavia “Tay” Washington McGee and Shaeed Woodard, drove down for a medical procedure for McGee but never made it. Barbara Burgess, McGee’s mother, said her daughter called to tell her she was 15 minutes away from the appointment but did not hear back from her after that.
Obrador said the group sought to buy medicine and that “there was a confrontation between groups, and they were detained.”
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FBI investigators believed the American citizens were mistakenly targeted by a Mexican cartel as Haitian drug smugglers. The group likely was caught in the crossfire of rival cartel groups last Friday, with a video showing them being loaded into a pickup truck by gunmen. A Mexican woman died in the crossfire on Friday as well.
It is unclear where or when the victims were found and whether those responsible have been arrested.
