9 Women & Children Shot & ‘Burned Alive’ in Mexican Ambush (Videos)

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Three women, four small children & two infants, were killed on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border, and authorities are investigating whether the attack was the result of mistaken identity. All nine were dual US-Mexican citizens. (Courtesy of Facebook)
Three women, four small children & two infants, were killed on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border, and authorities are investigating whether the attack was the result of mistaken identity. All nine were dual US-Mexican citizens. (Courtesy of Facebook)

November 5, 2019 – In Breaking News – CNN

Nine members of a Mormon family were killed on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border, and authorities are investigating whether the attack was the result of mistaken identity.

The victims include three women, four small children and two infants, family member Alex LeBaron said from Mexico.

All nine were dual US-Mexican citizens, he said.

(Nine Americans, including six children, were killed yesterday when they were caught in an apparent ambush. Courtesy of Sky News and YouTube. Posted on Nov 5, 2019.)

The victims were “all shot while in vehicles while driving,” LeBaron told CNN.

Several children survived the attack.

Investigators believe three vehicles traveling between the states of Sonora and Chihuahua were ambushed by criminal groups Monday evening, Mexican authorities said.

“Women and children were massacred, burned alive,” LeBaron said.

“Mothers were screaming for the fire to stop.”

Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said the attack could have been a case of mistaken identity of “conflicting groups in the area.”

(President Trump responds to brutal attack that left at least 9 Americans dead in Mexico, calls for ‘war’ against Mexican drug cartel ‘monsters.’ Courtesy of Fox News and YouTube. Posted on Nov 5, 2019.)

‘They were driving together for safety reasons’

In each of the three cars attacked, a mother was driving children to see family.

“They were driving together for safety reasons,” said Kendra Lee Miller, whose sister-in-law Rhonita Maria Miller was killed in the attack.

Rhonita Miller, 30, was driving with some of her seven children from La Mora, Sonora — where her family’s ranch is located — to Arizona to pick up her husband Howard, who was in the US for work, Kendra Miller said.

The family was supposed to go to Kendra’s wedding next week In La Mora, the bride-to-be said.

In a second car, 43-year-old Dawna Ray Langford was driving, Kendra Miller said.

“Dawna was going to visit her family with her children in Chihuahua,” Kendra Miller said.

(Relatives say American mothers and their children have been massacred in northern Mexico. The families were headed from Sonora state to Chihuahua for a wedding on Monday. In an ongoing situation involving killings and kidnappings, relatives claim up to nine of their family members, all American, were killed. Courtesy of Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIV and YouTube. Posted on Nov 5, 2019.)

Another member of the La Mora community, 29-year-old Christina Marie Langford Johnson, was driving the third car and “was going to meet her husband and the rest of her children because they were all moving up to North Dakota.”

At one point in their journey, Rhonita’s vehicle broke down with a flat tire, Kendra Miller said.

Rhonita and her children left her disabled car behind and then traveled back to La Mora with the other two women and their children to get another car.

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