A tragic incident unfolded in Mexico last Friday, leaving three individuals dead, two of whom were American citizens from Chicago.
The victims included Vicente Pea Rodrguez and Antonio Fernndez Rodrguez, both American nationals, along with a local resident, Jorge Eduardo Vargas Aguirre of Durango, Mexico. The Durango Attorney General's Office confirmed the deaths, but the details surrounding the shooting remain unclear.
According to Gateway Pundit, the group was traveling in an SUV with Illinois license plates near the town of Las Palmas when the attack occurred. The journey had initially been planned as a birthday celebration for Vicente Pea Rodrguez's 14-year-old son, who was critically injured in the incident and is currently in a medically induced coma. The family has expressed a desire to transfer the teenager to the U.S., but Mexican doctors have deemed his condition too fragile for such a move.
The grandfather of the teenage victim and father of Vicente Pea Rodrguez, Vicente Pea, expressed his devastation over the incident. "I feel very devastated because they wiped out my entire family," he said. He described the attack as a massacre, stating, "my son was shot four times in the head and once in the shoulder, and the other boy was also shot four times, once in the shoulder, and the other boy who was with them was also shot three times."
The news of the shooting reached the family back in Chicago through a distressing phone call. Maria Elena Hernandez, the grandmother of the teenage victim, recounted the moment her daughter informed her of the tragedy. "She said 'Mom, they killed my boy. They killed Junior. They killed my brother-in-law. I dont know what to do,'" Hernandez shared.
Julia Contreras of United Giving Hope, a group advocating for the teenage victim's return to the U.S., spoke about the family's ordeal. "As you can only imagine this is a nightmare for his mother. And right now what were trying to do is provide that advocacy and security," she said. Contreras also highlighted the challenges they face in dealing with Mexican hospitals. "They have their train of thought, and they have their protocols and procedures, and they dont care if youre a United States citizen. So its nightmarish to be in another country, like Mexico, and not have the adequate, appropriate medical care," she stated.
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