- Some of the nine women and children who were killed by suspected gunmen in Mexico were shot at point-blank range in Sonora state, Mexico
- Three mothers and six children were killed by cartel gunmen on Monday, November 4
- The victims are members of the LeBaron community, a faction of Mormons who moved to Mexico to practice polygamy decades ago
- Eight children who were also at the scene survived, but five suffered injuries
- The Mexican government has blamed the attack on cartel groups who mistook the family’s vehicles as a rival gangs
- American officials are currently being barred from investigating the incident
Several of the nine women and children who were brutally murdered by suspected gunman on an isolated highway in Mexico were reportedly shot at point-blank range in a targeted assassination.
The revelation comes as Mexican authorities reportedly refuse to allow American officials to investigate the massacre that left members of a small American Mormon village dead.
An American federal investigator disclosed to the New York Post that some of the evidence from the shootings could already be compromised.
‘They were taken out of their cars and shot,’ an American federal investigator said.
‘It’s kind of disturbing that the FBI has had no access to the crime scene, which is probably a disaster already because the Mexicans have allowed families to remove the bodies. Any evidence that could have been gathered is probably destroyed,’ they added.
A Mexican investigator said the alleged hitmen, ‘shot some of the victims at point-blank range’.
On Saturday the final funeral was held for victim Christina Marie Langford.
In the wake of the murders, some families are now fleeing their homes and returning across the border to America.