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Elder Sharon Hammond uses a tissue during a vigil for a group of Americans recently kidnapped in Mexico, at Word of God Ministries in Scranton, S.C., Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Two of the four Americans, all from South Carolina, were killed after being caught in a deadly shootout while traveling last week to Matamoros for one of them to get cosmetic surgery. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)

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Sister grieves for American killed in Mexico kidnapping
By HILARY POWELL - Associated Press
Sun,03/12/23-10:06AM , 132 Reads
LAKE CITY, S.C. (AP) — Prepping for his first trip out of the country, 28-year-old Zindell Brown of Lake City, South Carolina, had something more than nerves.
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Today would have been Shaeed Woodard’s 34th birthday, according to his father, James Woodard. (March 9)

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Here's how the 4 Americans abducted in Mexico were found
By ALFREDO PEÑA, HILARY POWELL AND JAMES POLLARD - Associated Press
Fri,03/10/23-9:48AM , 127 Reads
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — The anonymous tip that led Mexican authorities to a remote shack where four abducted Americans were held described armed men, people wearing blindfolds and plenty of activity around a ranch.
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A Mexican army soldier guards the Tamaulipas State Prosecutor's headquarters in Matamoros, Mexico, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery veered violently off course when four Americans were caught in a drug cartel shootout, leaving two dead and two held captive for days in a remote region of the Gulf coast before they were rescued from a wood shack, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo)

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Letter claims cartel handed over men who killed Americans
By ALFREDO PEÑA, MARK STEVENSON AND JAMES POLLARD - Associated Press
Thu,03/09/23-10:34AM , 140 Reads
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were re
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People comfort each other after a vigil for a group of Americans recently kidnapped in Mexico, at Word of God Ministries in Scranton, S.C., Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Two of the four Americans, all from South Carolina, were killed after being caught in a deadly shootout while traveling last week to Matamoros for one of them to get cosmetic surgery. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)

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Friend warned police Americans feared missing in Mexico
By JAMES POLLARD, JAKE BLEIBERG AND JULIE WATSON - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,03/08/23-2:22PM , 89 Reads
LAKE CITY, S.C. (AP) — The frantic effort to rescue four Americans taken captive in Mexico in a kidnapping that left two dead came after a woman traveling with the group contacted police when they did not return to the U.S. side as expected.
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