The federal government is investigating incidents of international homicide after two Americans traveling with a group to Mexico for medical tourism were kidnapped and killed by members of a local drug gang.
Two other U.S. citizens have been rescued, leaving officials to figure out why they were targeted by the thugs.
On Tuesday, March 7, Tamaulipas Attorney General Irving Barrios Mojica told the public that officials have located the four people, Latavia Washington McGee, Zindell Brown, Shaeed Woodard, and Eric James Williams, who went missing on Friday, March 3, in a town on the border of Mexico and the U.S.
Barrios Mojica also noted that not all were healthy and alive, saying, “Unfortunately, two [were found] dead.”
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price is calling for someone in the Mexican government to take some accountability for the death and kidnapping of the American citizens.
“We want to see accountability for the violence that has been inflicted on these Americans that tragically led to the death of two of them,” Price said.
Continuing with a laser focus on the drug cartels and identifying them as terrorist organizations, he said, “When it comes to the drug cartels, we’re going to do what is most effective to limit their ability to traffic in their wares.”
“This is something that our colleagues at the DEA are extremely focused on. We have laws on the books, we have designated these criminal organizations, these drug trafficking organizations, consistent with the authorities that we as a government have,” Price explained.
According to CNN, the four traveled to northeastern Mexico from South Carolina to support Washington McGee during a scheduled medical procedure in Matamoros, just below Brownsville, Texas. Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal said around 9:18 a.m., the Americans went off the radar after crossing the international bridge into the city.
Friends told authorities a day after the…
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