“She saw them die”: the testimonies of relatives and friends of the Americans kidnapped in Matamoros

Two dead, one injured and another in good condition, it’s the balance that remains he kidnapping of four American citizens last Friday, March 3 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

When said crime has been attributed to the criminal group Scorpios -excision of Gulf Cartel– The so-called Matamoros case has captured the attention of public opinion on both sides of the border, straining bilateral relations between the United States and Mexico.

And it is that due to the brutality of the events, the kidnapping and the sensitive death of two of the victims aroused the indignation of the citizens, in particular in the relatives and friends of Americans who visited the state of Tamaulipas than medical tourism and that they did not expect to find this fateful destination.

Last Tuesday, the governor of Tamaulipas, America Villarrealconfirmed that the four US citizens abducted by armed civilians had been located by authorities in a safe house located in the ejido El Tecolote.

After reporting the toll of the kidnapping and handing over the bodies of the victims to their relatives at the border of Mexico and the United States, new details about the Matamoros case have begun to emerge, highlighting the bone drug offense case American citizens hadas well as the heartbreaking testimonies of their loved ones recently compiled by the media New York Post, the agency Associated press and the chain CNN.

In a new episode, said outlet detailed that there could have been five victims of this kidnapping since a friend of the four US citizens, identified as Cheryl Orange, was also planning to take the said trip to the city of Matamoros.

However, Orange stayed at a motel in Brownsville, Texas, while his friends continued their road trip through Mexico from he had forgotten to bring his ID with him.

After learning of the abduction from her friends, Cheryl Orange was tipped off by the police so that, in case she had any relevant information, she would communicate immediately.

“She just had plastic surgery, and that’s it. That’s it, and it happened to them“, said the friend of the American citizens kidnapped in Matamoros for the agency Associated Press.

Another person close to the victims of the Matamoros Affair who testified was jerry wallacecousin of Eric James Williams, a survivor who was found with a gunshot wound to the leg inside a safe house in the El Tecolote ejido.

According to the medium New York Post, the elder cousin of the American citizen said that his family member was strong and that was better after the tragic moments he experienced in Mexico.

“Merely he is upset that his friend was killed right in front of himwhat any other person would be with the things he went through,” Jerry Wallace told the aforementioned outlet.

Williams’ cousin also mentioned that the four American citizens who traveled to Matamoros, Tamaulipas this Friday “grew up together”However, he refrained from commenting on the criminal record of Woodard, one of the kidnapping victims.

Barbara Burgess, mother of Latavia McGee -the 33-year-old woman who was planning to undergo cosmetic surgery in Matamoros- commented for the channel CNN What her daughter gave her details of when she was deprived of her liberty.

“They started running and they were shot at the same time, all of them. they were shot at the same time and she watched them diethey threw them in the truck like they were trash,” Latavia McGee’s mother shared.

Likewise, the sister of Zindell Brown -the second victim of the kidnapping- assured that your family member was unsure about traveling to Mexico However, due to the high rate of violence in the country, his childhood friends convinced him and he found his tragic destiny in the Aztec land.