LATEST: Authorities are searching for four Americans who were shot at by gunmen and kidnapped shortly after crossing the border into Northern Mexico last week, as more information about the victims comes to light.
shortly after crossing the border into Northern Mexico last week, as more information about the victims comes to light.
McCleod said the group was from South Carolina, but had been traveling in a rental vehicle with North Carolina license plates when they entered Matamoros. The FBI confirmed that the group was traveling in a white minivan with North Carolina plates. The group had been driving a rental vehicle with North Carolina plates, a family member and the FBI said.“This is like a bad dream you wish you could wake up from,” she told the news agency. “To see a member of your family thrown in the back of a truck and dragged, it is just unbelievable.”
"These sorts of attacks are unacceptable," she said, adding that U.S. law enforcement was in touch with Mexican authorities, as were the departments of State and Homeland Security.
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