Two of four U.S. citizens kidnapped at gunpoint last week in northern Mexico were found dead Tuesday, Mexican authorities said, while two others were freed and transported to the United States in a dramatic rescue operation that capped off a days-long manhunt.
The Americans were located Tuesday morning in a small wooden house in a field outside the violent border city of Matamoros, said Irving Barrios Mojica, the attorney general of Tamaulipas state. Mexican authorities detained one suspect, identified only as Jose Guadalupe N., 23, who they said was a guard at the house.
The two survivors — Latavia "Tay" McGee and Eric James Williams, badly wounded in his left leg — were rushed to the border in a convoy of ambulances and law enforcement vehicles and handed over to U.S. authorities in Brownsville, Texas.
