Mexico Police are being questioned in the killing of three Americans.
Let us be in prayer over this, Mexico is hell on earth as the world ignores the war going on in Mexico. Three American siblings missing in northern Mexico for more than two weeks have been found dead near Matamoros, the family has confirmed to reporters.
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The bodies were badly burned, decomposed, and each had one bullet wound to the head, said Nohemi Rodriguez, an aunt to the two males and a female.
Tamaulipas State Attorney General, Ismael Quintanilla Acosta, told Radio Formula that the father, Pedro Alvarado, identified the bodies from photographs where tattoos were shown.
Erica Alvarado Rivera, 26, and her brothers Alex, 22, and Jose Angel, 21, went missing on October 13th while visiting their father in Matamoros from Progreso, Texas. The distance between the two cities is about 30 miles.
Their bodies were found east of the border city of Matamoros Wednesday morning, along with a fourth body. The fourth person is Erica’s boyfriend, 32-year-old Jose Guadalupe Castaneda Benitez, a Mexican national whom she dated for about a year. Erica is the mother of four children ages 3-9, and had been scheduled to begin studying to become a nursing assistant next month.
“We just want justice because they were nice, outgoing human beings, they liked to help people out,” Rodriguez, 45, said. “These are my nephews and it really hurts. I don’t have words to tell my sister. I’m trying to be strong for her.”
The victims’ mother, Raquel Alvarado, and her grandkids are driving to Mexico.
Brothers Jose Angel and Alex were migrant farm workers and were scheduled to be in Missouri by now. The boys would divide their time between their divorced parents – spending two or three weeks at time with their father in Mexico, helping out around his mechanic shop.
As reported by the Associated Press, Raquel Alvarado said witnesses saw armed men dressed in police gear seize her daughter and sons in El Control, a small town near the Texas border west of Matamoros.
The mother said Erica Alvarado drove her black Jeep Cherokee across the border Oct. 12 and dropped it at her father’s house in El Control. She visited her boyfriend there and the next morning called her brothers to ask them to bring the Cherokee to a roadside restaurant where the couple was eating. The three siblings planned to return to Progreso together from there.
When Alex and Jose Angel Alvarado arrived to pick up their sister, they saw men “pushing their sister and her boyfriend and hitting her,” the mother said.
Witnesses said the brothers tried to intervene, but they were taken away by armed men who identified themselves as part of Grupo Hercules, a recently formed police security unit for Matamoros city officials, and were traveling in military-style trucks. Alvarado said witnesses also saw federal highway police, “but no one did anything.”
According to Rodriguez, about ten witnesses told Pedro Alvarado that two military-style trucks had the name of the city’s Mayor, Leticia Salazar, on them. The men threatened witnesses to keep silent or else, Rodriguez said.