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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

Three of the South Carolina kidnapping victims accompanied the fourth to Mexico so she could get medical care — part of a growing U.S. trend of traveling abroad for health treatments.

The two Americans who survived a deadly kidnapping in Mexico, where two others were killed, returned to the U.S. with a harrowing tale.

Zindell Brown, one of the two found dead in Matamoros had expressed concerns over their safety before travelling to Tamaulipas, Mexico. Latavia McGee said she and Eric James Williams watched him and Shaeed Woodard get killed

Mr Rivera participated in a cocaine sting with the Broward County Sheriff’s office in the mid 1980’s

LaTavia “Tay” McGee and Eric survived a terrifying abduction in Matamoros, but by the time Mexican authorities rescued them from a “stash house” four days later, their friends Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard had been killed before their eyes. Andrea Blanco reports

Zindell Brown told his sister that he was worried about the dangers of visiting Matamoros

Here’s a timeline of events in the deadly kidnapping of four US citizens in Mexico

The two surviving American citizens were held in a tiny wooden hut for days alongside the body of one of their murdered friends near the city of Matamoros, Mexico