At least six children and three women living in a Mormon community of U.S. citizens in
Mexico were shot to death Monday and several others were reportedly kidnapped after their convoy came under fire during a brazen daylight ambush believed to have been carried out by gunmen affiliated with
organized crime in the country.
Those attacked were members of the LeBaron family, a well known American clan who have lived in the fundamentalist community in the northern part of the country for decades, according to the
New York Times. Kenny LeBaron, a cousin to several of the victims, told the Times he feared the death toll could increase.
“When you know there are babies tied in a car seat that are burning because of some twisted evil that’s in this world,” LeBaron said, “it’s just hard to cope with that.”
More than a dozen other members of La Mora — a decades-old settlement in Sonora state founded as part of an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints— were missing after the attack on the convoy of three SUVs, a relative told The Associated Press.
US citizens killed, kidnapped in cartel shootout in Mexico | Fox News
I just can't imagine the motive here.