Two survivors of Mexico kidnapping healing in US hospitals

• Two remaining Americans who were last week kidnapped in Matamoros.
• Now they are receiving medical treatment is US hospitals.
• The two of their buddies who were also kidnapped perished in the tragedy.

Two remaining Americans who were last week kidnapped in Matamoros, Mexico at gunpoint are receiving medical care in US hospitals.

The two of their buddies who were also kidnapped perished in the tragedy.

José “N,” a 24-year-old guy from Tamaulipas, has been detained.

Latavia Washington McGee is recuperating in the hospital without any wounds, while Eric Williams, according to his wife, is in a Texas hospital getting surgery for three gunshot wounds to his leg.

According to Michelle Williams, their 11-year-old son and she were both relieved to learn that her husband was still alive, as she told the local affiliate.

“My heart is breaking for the other two families that don’t get to say the same,” she said.

On March 3, when the group of four travelled through Matamoros, a metropolis of 500,000 people located right across the border from the Texas town of Brownsville, unidentified gunmen opened fire and killed Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown.

Last Friday’s event resulted in the death of a Mexican woman, who was thought to be a 33-year-old bystander who was more than a block away.

Due to Ms. McGee’s appointment for a stomach tuck, a cosmetic surgical procedure to reduce abdominal fat, the party had travelled from South Carolina and crossed the border into Mexico, according to her relatives.

The four Americans were relocated between the time of their kidnapping on Friday and their discovery on Tuesday “to create uncertainty,” according to Mexican authorities.

They were eventually recovered at a wooden hut outside of Matamoros.

They were carried back by a heavily armed military convoy from Mexico.

Because he had thought of Brown and Woodard as being similar to his “brothers,” Ms. Williams claimed that her husband Eric Williams became upset while speaking to her on the phone.

Ms. McGee was also emotional, crying on the phone to her mother, Barbara Burgess, who told local affiliate her daughter “watched two of them die” right “in front of her”.

The four Americans can be seen being carried into a pickup truck by heavily armed men in a video of the kidnapping. While others are carried to the truck while appearing to be unconscious, one is manhandled onto it.

According to a US law enforcement source who spoke to the media, investigators think the attack was carried out by the Gulf Cartel, one of the oldest organized crime organizations in Mexico.

The US State Department recommends travelers not to travel to six Mexican states, including Tamaulipas, due of “crime and kidnapping.” Matamoros is one of these states.

One of the most popular locations for medical tourism worldwide is Mexico.

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