One of four Americans abducted during an ambush by a Mexican drug cartel last week was reportedly able to speak to his mother from a Texas hospital on Tuesday.
LaTavia McGee, a resident of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and three other Americans were killed shortly after crossing the border Friday in Matamoros, Mexico.
Shaeed Woodard, 33, and Zindell Brown, mid-20s, were killed, while McGee and Eric Williams were abducted by several men wearing tactical vests and carrying assault rifles, according to the Associated Press.
The four victims were found on Tuesday in a wooden shack in a rural area near Matamoros. The two survivors were transported to a hospital in Brownsville, Texas, while the State Department is working to recover the remains of the two deceased victims.
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Barbara Burgess, McGee’s mother, told WDPE that a hospital nurse called her and was able to speak with her daughter on Tuesday.
“She’s alive. I talked to her. I talked to her. The nurse at the hospital called me and had me talk to her,” Burgess told the local South Carolina news.
“She was crying. I asked her how she was. She was fine. She was crying because her brother was killed and she watched him die. She watched two of them die. They died in front of her.”
The four were reportedly on their way to Matamoros so one of them could have a cosmetic procedure.
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Mexican authorities believe the shooting and kidnapping were the result of “confusion, not a direct attack,” according to the Associated Press. Rival factions of the Gulf drug cartel have been at war for years in the streets of Matamoros.
