Matamoros

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.

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.

Tamaulipas governor says two others are alive, one of them injured.

citizens were killed in Mexico, according to the U.S. Consulate in Matamoros and about a mile from U.S. State Department’s [travel advisory](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/mexico-travel-advisory.html) for the state of Tamaulipas advises U.S. “Do not travel due to crime and kidnapping,” the State Department says. Last Friday’s attack happened a few blocks from the U.S. U.S. The Americans were found at a hut in a field on the outskirts of Matamoros, Mr. Zalayna Brown Grant said on a GoFundMe page that her younger brother Zindell Brown and the two other men went to Matamoros to accompany Ms. “The FBI is working in coordination with the security ministry,” he said. State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing Tuesday that the U.S. “We send our condolences to the relatives of the victims, their friends, to the people of the U.S., to the government of the U.S.,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his daily press conference after speaking on the phone to Tamaulipas Gov. The incident occurred as some U.S.

Latavia “Tay” Mcgee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown and Eric James Williams were kidnapped after travelling to Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Latavia 'Tay' Mcgee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown and Eric James Williams were kidnapped in Matamoros - an area dominated by the Gulf drug cartel.

Tamaulipas Attorney General Irving Barrios Mojica also said that Mexican officials believe members of the Gulf drug cartel are behind the attack. And she added: “This is like a bad dream you wish you could wake up from. Photos purportedly showed the suspects with their hands tied, face down on a sidewalk after being turned in by the cartel along with the letter. To see a member of your family thrown in the back of a truck and dragged, it is just unbelievable.” Eric James Williams and his friend Latavia “Tay” McGee were rescued from a drug cartel “stash house” on Tuesday, four days after they were kidnapped by armed gunmen in Matamoros, Mexico, while on their way to a tummy tuck clinic. The US Consulate in Matamoros issued a warning to its employees on Friday in response to the latest outbreak of violence. The South Carolina community which was home to the kidnapped Americans held a vigil on Wednesday in honour of the two victims killed and two survivors. [US State Department](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/us-state-department) has [advised Americans not to travel to Tamaulipas](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/mexico-travel-advisory.html) due to the risk of crime and kidnapping, with the region featuring on its “Level 4: Do Not Travel” list. Cheryl Orange was part of the group of American childhood friends who drove from South Carolina to the border in Texas last week so that one of them – Latavia “Tay” McGee – could get a tummy tuck procedure. Cheryl Orange was part of the group of American childhood friends who drove from South Carolina to the border so that Latavia ‘Tay’ McGee could get a tummy tuck procedure The killing of two US citizens on their way to a Mexican clinic is a stark warning for the nearly one million Americans who cross the border for medical care each year, Io Dodds reports The killing of two US citizens on their way to a Mexican clinic is a stark warning for the nearly one million Americans who cross the border for medical care each year.

A relative of one of the Americans believed to have been kidnapped late last week said Monday that the group had traveled together from South Carolina so ...

Shortly after entering Mexico Friday they were caught in the crossfire of rival cartel groups. The FBI had reported Sunday that it was searching with Mexican authorities for the missing Americans, who had been kidnapped Friday. Américo Villarreal said that one of the surviving U.S.

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.

After crossing from Brownsville, Texas into Matamoros, Tamaulipas, shots were fired on a group of Americans in a van.

They were aware of the dangers in Mexico, she added, and her brother had expressed some misgivings. Américo Villarreal confirmed the deaths by phone, saying details about the four missing Americans had been confirmed by prosecutors. The FBI says they were each placed into a pickup truck and taken from the scene by armed men. She said another SUV then came up to the scene and several armed men hopped out. They crossed from Brownsville, Texas, into the city of Matamoros in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. “I entered a state of shock, nobody honked their horn, nobody moved.

The two U.S. citizens who survived the kidnapping in Matamoros were taken to a Valley hospital Tuesday morning.

through Brownsville’s Veterans International Bridge where Valley ambulances were ready to take them to Valley Regional Medical Center. On Sunday, the FBI FBI agents escorted the ambulances to the hospital.