The two Americans who were discovered alive on Tuesday in Mexico after being taken hostage at gunpoint during a cartel shootout have been identified and are back in the US, according to sources.
Tuesday, Latavia “Tay” McGee and Eric James Williams were transported to the border close to Brownsville, Texas, in a convoy of ambulances and SUVs, with the assistance of Mexican military Humvees and National Guard trucks equipped with mounted.50-caliber machine guns.
They had only been discovered a few hours earlier in the remote Ejido Longoreo neighbourhood east of Matamoros, which is located on the route to Bagdad Beach on the Gulf coast.
A source familiar with the investigation told CNN that the two would receive medical attention at a hospital in Texas just hours after they were reportedly discovered at a clinic in the border city of Matamoros in northeastern Mexico.
Sources told CNN that one of the survivors is reportedly seriously hurt.
McGee and Williams, along with friends Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown, had flown to Mexico so that McGee could get a cosmetic surgery.
They were targeted in a shootout between rival cartel gangs not long after they crossed the border from Texas into the violent border city of Matamoros in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.
The ruthless thugs then kidnapped the foursome while holding them at gunpoint.
The demise of Woodard and Brown was verified on Tuesday. Before being returned to the US, their bodies will be examined by Mexican authorities, according to CNN.
