The Latest Breaking News from Kidnapping

Next week will feature a number of upsetting storylines

DALLAS — The kidnapping of four Black Americans — and the killing of two of them — in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros has sparked fear among Black migrants and raised concerns among aid workers who say Black asylum-seekers have long been targeted by drug cartels.

MEXICO CITY — As investigators continued their search for the gunmen who kidnapped four Americans in the border city of Matamoros last week, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lashed out at Republican U.S. lawmakers who have proposed sending troops into Mexico, telling them that the United States should concentrate…

Five men, members of a faction of the Gulf cartel named the 'Scorpions', were reportedly turned in to authorities in Matamoros, Mexico, along with a letter allegedly assuming responsibility for the kidnapping of four Americans

Jose Alberto Garcia Vilano’s whereabouts remain unknown since Mexican officials put out a reward for his capture in April 2022

Almost 34 years after the killing of Mark Kilroy, Matamoros is once again the site of global attention after the kidnapping of four American tourists from South Carolina

The four friends had driven across the border into Mexico to attend a tummy-tuck appointment, but were ambushed in the city of Matamoros by armed men and bullets started flying

Cheryl Orange was part of the group of American childhood friends who drove from South Carolina to the border so that Latavia ‘Tay’ McGee could get a tummy tuck procedure

Video appears to capture the moment American victims Latavia ‘Tay’ Mcgee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown and Eric James Williams were kidnapped in Matamoros – an area dominated by the Gulf drug cartel