The combination believed responsible for the fortified hijacking last week that killed two American excursionists and a Mexican woman in Matamoros, Mexico, issued an reason letter and handed over five of their members to original authorities, according to images circulating online and a interpretation of the letter obtained from an sanctioned familiar with the ongoing disquisition. The source told CNN that investigators believe the letter to be authentic.
“The (Gulf Cartel) apologizes to the society of Matamoros, the cousins of Ms. Areli, and the affected American people and families,” reads the handwritten letter, pertaining to a Mexican woman who was also killed in the shootout. Mexican officers gave the bodies of the two dead men, linked as Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown, to US officers in Matamoros on Thursday autumn, and they were taken across the border into the US, Reuters news agency reported. Woodard’s kinsman, Latavia McGee, had surprised him with the fatal road trip as a birthday flight, according to his father, James Woodard. He said he was speechless upon hearing that the combination had apologised for the violent hijacking that killed his son and was captured in footage that snappily spread online.
The attorney general’s office of Tamaulipas, where Matamoros lies, refused to note the reports. The office said its disquisition indicated that the kidnappers took the Americans to a clinic where they were given medical attention. The substantiation suggested Woodard and Brown had presumably failed from injuries they suffered during the attack in Matamoros, Reuters reported citing the Mexican source. Before this week, their two surviving companions returned to the U.S. Tamaulipas’ attorney general on Monday and said that the hijacking of the four was probably a case of incorrect identity. Still, the authorities have yet to easily set out the reasons for the attack. The prosecutor’s office reported the arrest of one suspect, who it said had been guarding the abducted Americans. The two survivors were returned to the United States via a land border crossing between Matamoros and Brownsville, Texas. The bodies of the two dead Americans were repatriated on Thursday, authorities said.
