Mexico - 10 members of Polygamist LeBaron Family murdered, Sonora, Nov 2019 *arrests*

[SuziQ]

A Queen Creek family is mourning the deaths of at least 10 relatives, including three mothers and their young children, killed Monday in an ambush in Sonora.

The three mothers who were killed lived in a Mormon community in the state of Sonora and had dual U.S. and Mexican citizenship, according to Leah Staddon, who grew up in the same Mormon community, Bavispe, before moving to Queen Creek.

The three mothers were driving from Bavispe to a wedding in LaBaron, another Mormon community in the state of Chihuahua, when their three vehicles loaded with children were attacked by gunfire, causing one of the vehicles to explode in flames.

Staddon said her nephew's wife and her four children, among them twin 4-month-old babies, died in the blaze.

She said her brother discovered the bullet-ridden vehicle still smoldering with the charred bodies inside and shot a video as evidence.

"It's devastating," Staddon said. "It's incomprehensible, the evil. I don’t understand how someone could do that."

More at link:
Queen Creek woman says at least 10 relatives murdered on way to wedding in Mexico

 

[0101ABA]

I was just getting ready to post this, so thank you. I’ll definitely be following...

I think there may be more to this story but the cartels are ruthless and unforgiving. It’s not just the drugs that kill people...it’s the operations that do.

(getting off my pharmaceutical high horse now and sitting on my hands)

 

[SuziQ]

At least five US citizens, including four children, have been 'EXECUTED by cartel gunmen in a shooting attack in Mexico and their bodies left in a burned-out, bullet-ridden SUV'

Relatives say at least 5 US citizens killed in Mexico | Daily Mail Online

 

[SuziQ]

I was just getting ready to post this, so thank you. I’ll definitely be following...

Just awful isn't it? I hope they catch the person's responsible.

 

[Elliot_Alderson]

This is awful. Saw a video clip on CNN this morning and one of the vehicles was utterly destroyed. They were saying that a cartel more than likely mistook the wedding caravan as a caravan of a rival cartel.

 

[moonriverfarm]

9 US citizens slaughtered in Mexico ambush, family says

 

[moonriverfarm]

Sonora massacre - Babies burned alive and women ‘raped’ as Mexican cartel murder nine US Mormons in ‘targeted’ hit

 

[Herat]

There are some reports the community had received threats recently.

I don't know how many people live in the compound, but I wonder if some gang decided they wanted it for themselves and were starting to try to drive them out.

 

[happyday]

I wonder why they had dual citizenship since that sect has lived in Mexico for more than 40 years? Just curious. I just cannot imagine living in a Mexican/US border area with children right now. Terribly dangerous—so sad.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau said in a tweet that Mexican authorities had informed their U.S. counterparts that the dead included three women and six children.
At least 9 members of American family killed in Mexico, most of them kids

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[jiminy]

This article from last year highlights some of the local tensions between the sect and the local community.

Water Wars: Ranchers Clash Over Scarce Resources in Mexico

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[SuziQ]

CNN has continuous running updates at the below link.

Live updates: Mormon family killed in Mexico - CNN

 

[Gardenista]

Death toll climbs in Mexican cartel shootout as more US citizens identified

https://nypost.com/2019/11/05/death-toll-climbs-in-mexican-cartel-shootout-as-more-us-citizens-identified/

 

[FrostOwl]

There is already a thread: Mexico-10 members of Polygamist LaBaron Family murdered

 

[sloane7777]

Glad to find a thread , Ive always wondered what happened to the Le Barron children and remaining family members , since I live in Irving , the whole thing has fascinated me

 

[sds71]

if they moved there after they married or if their parents were born there(like Romneys Dad)
They would have dual citizenship