A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery ended with two Americans dead — and two others found alive in a rural area near the Gulf coast — after a violent shootout and abduction that was captured on video, officials said Tuesday.
The surviving Americans were back on U.S. soil after being sped to the border near Brownsville, the southernmost tip of Texas, in a convoy of ambulances and SUVs escorted by Mexican military Humvees and National Guard trucks with mounted machine guns.of one of the victims said Monday that the four had traveled together from the Carolinas so one of them could get a tummy tuck surgery from a doctor in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, where Friday’s kidnapping took place.
Villareal said the wounded American, Eric Williams, had been shot in the left leg and the wound was not life threatening. The survivors were taken to Valley Regional Medical Center with an FBI escort, the Brownsville HeraldThe U.S. citizens were found in a rural area east of Matamoros called Ejido Tecolote on the way to the Gulf coast known asShortly after entering Mexico Friday, the four were caught amid fighting between rival cartel groups in the city.
Officials said a Mexican woman a block and a half away from the scene also died in Friday’s crossfire. “He thought it would be fun,” Williams said. He hadn’t heard anything about his brother’s whereabouts, he said.
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