Gunmen believed to be members of organized crime murdered at least three women and six children, all of whom were American citizens and members of a fundamentalist Mormon community, in northern Mexico near the U.S. border on Tuesday.
According to family members, the nine women and children were traveling in three separate vehicles on their way to a wedding in the neighboring Mormon community when gunmen attacked. One child was gunned down as he tried to run away, while others, including two four-month-old twins, were trapped inside a burning car and died.
One infant child, who was found sitting in a car seat outside the car, survived the attack. Another 13-year-old child who ran to get help also survived....
Zitat Women killed in Mexican cartel murders had alleged ties to sex cult Nxivm
By Emily Saul, Andrew Denney and Kate Sheehy
November 5, 2019 | 3:12pm | Updated
Nixvm leader Keith Raniere and Rhonita Maria Miller
The nine women and children slaughtered in Mexico on Monday were part of a Mormon community with ties to the alleged sex-cult Nxivm.
The outpost Mormon community in Mexico is where underlings of Nxivm leader Keith Raniere recruited young women to work as nannies in an upstate New York compound run by the accused cult — suggesting at least in part that the jobs would get the girls away from their home region’s drug violence, according a man hired by Raniere to produce a documentary about the group.
The three moms and six kids killed in Monday’s violence in the northern town of Sonora are believed to have been the victims of a drug cartel, which may have mistaken the group’s caravan of three SUVs for rivals, Mexican authorities said Tuesday....
ZitatDeath toll climbs in Mexican cartel shootout as more US citizens identified
By Yaron Steinbuch
November 5, 2019 | 8:19am
2 moms, 5 kids among US citizens gunned down by drug cartel in Mexico
The FBI has opened an investigation into the massacre of US citizens gunned down by drug cartels in northern Mexico — as the death toll has climbed to nine, including three women, 8-month-old twins and four other children, according to reports.
The victims — dual US-Mexico citizens with ties to Utah — were allegedly caught in crossfire of two cartels in the border state of Sonora, near where they worship with Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The families lived in La Mora, a Mormon community about 70 miles south of Douglas, Arizona....