Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) vowed before the family of murdered Marine veteran Nicholas Douglas Quets to “kick the cartel’s asses” believed to be responsible for the Arizonan’s murder in Mexico over the weekend.

Speaking to a rally crowd in Tucson Tuesday, where Quets had lived and worked until being gunned down in his pickup truck Friday evening, Vance said he had just spoken with the father and brother-in-law of the Marine. Vance is also a retired Marine.