Over a month after 4 Americans have been assaulted and kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel, two survivors are revealing particulars of their captivity as they get well from the trauma of the ordeal and the demise of their two associates.
“They didn’t deserve that. None of us deserved it. But we’re alive – we have a lot of recovering to do,” LaTavia Washington McGee instructed CNN’s Anderson Cooper throughout an unique interview Tuesday.
Survivors Of Mexican Kidnapping Reveal Horrifying Details Of Time In Captivity
On March 3, Washington McGee, Eric Williams, Shaeed Woodard, and Zindell Brown have been kidnapped whereas touring to a medical appointment in Matamoros, Mexico. Both Woodard and Brown have been killed, whereas McGee and Williams survived.
The group was driving throughout the U.S.-Mexico border once they heard a automobile horn beeping behind them. Brown appeared again. Then noticed the occupants had weapons and instructed the others to not cease the car, Washington McGee recalled.
That’s when the taking pictures began, based on Williams.
“Zindell and Shaeed, they jumped up to run and they were gunned down,” Williams mentioned.
Williams was shot in each legs after leaping out of the motive force’s facet door as somebody began beating on the automobile window with a gun.
Meanwhile, Washington McGee was compelled by gunpoint into the mattress of a pickup truck, disturbing CCTV footage reveals, and the others have been carried onto it.
Investigators imagine the group was mistaken for Haitian drug smugglers; a U.S. official beforehand instructed CNN.
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Deceased Were Both Still Alive When Their Limp Bodies Were Tossed Into The Back Of Pickup Truck
Williams and Washington McGee instructed CNN that Brown and Woodward have been nonetheless alive when their limp our bodies have been dragged and tossed onto the truck mattress.
The outlet experiences that the group was then pushed to a different location the place they have been interrogated.
“That’s where Shaeed said, ‘I love y’all, and I’m gone.’ And he died right there,” Williams mentioned.
Washington McGee recalled he instructed Woodard he was sorry because the latter lay dying at the back of the truck.
LaTavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams survived the kidnapping, whereas Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown have been killed.
Apology letter issued by Gulf Cartel, which is believed to be accountable 4 kidnappings & handed over 5 members to native authorities,https://t.co/GV0OWhtTvK pic.twitter.com/Uwuk2PUHhk
— Holly Quinn (@HollyQuinn30248) March 12, 2023
“He said he loved us and he was gone. It was the last thing he said,” Williams mentioned by means of tears.
McGee and Williams say they have been moved to a number of completely different places over the subsequent few days as they remained in captivity, entire being blindfolded between switching spots.
The group was finally taken to a home the place individuals carrying purple plastic “Diablo” masks “pointed guns to our head, telling us not to look up,” Williams mentioned.
Later, Williams was taken to a clinic the place they stitched him up and put his leg on a bit of wooden, including that nobody even checked to see if a bullet was nonetheless inside.
“No pain medicine or nothing. They just stitched it up,” Williams mentioned.
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McGee says she was positioned in a room with Brown as he lay dying and mortally wounded.
Video purportedly reveals the kidnapping of 4 American residents in Mexico close to the Texas border.pic.twitter.com/XTqInsP5te
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 6, 2023
Six People Arrested In Mexico So Far In Connection To The Fatal Kidnappings, Officials Say
McGee and Williams have been lastly rescued on March 7 after being dropped off at a picket shack. The two survivors and the our bodies of their associates have been finally introduced again to the U.S.
An apology letter was later launched and located by the Gulf cartel.
At least six individuals have been arrested in Mexico to date, based on CNN.