Saturday, November 01, 2014

Three US Citizens Shot Dead In Mexico

Mexican authorities are looking into the deaths of three US citizens who were shot dead on a visit to see their father. The investigation is focused on a specialist security unit known as "Hercules", made up of former marines and soldiers who police hot zones for crime. Nine of 40 Hercules officers, working in the violent border city of Matamoros, are being questioned over the deaths of four people, including the three US siblings. According to a witness, brothers Alex Rivera, 22, and Jose Angel, 21, arrived at their father's house to find security personnel hitting their sister Erica, 26. When the brothers intervened, the Hercules men took the siblings along with Erica's 32-year-old boyfriend Jose Guadalupe Castaneda Benitez. The father of the three Americans, Pedro Alvarado, later identified his children from photographs of the bodies showing tattoos. Each person had been shot in the head and the bodies were burned - most probably from having been lying in the hot sun for so long, police said...more

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