New details emerge about kidnapping in Mexico after 2 Americans killed, 2 rescued

Two of the four U.S. citizens who were seized in a violent kidnapping in Mexico last week have been found dead and two others were rescued, arriving back on American soil on Tuesday. CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca joined John Dickerson on "Prime Time" with the latest.

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when we begin our report with the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico two of them are safely back on U.S soil the other two are dead the victims were found in a rural area east of the northern Mexico border city of Metro moros the other two survivors were returned to the U.S Tuesday Mexican officials say one of them was injured Omar via Franca is in Brownsville Texas with the latest Americans who survived being caught in a shootout and kidnapped by Cartel gunman were taken to a hospital in Brownsville Texas today Mexican authorities found
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Latavia McGee and Eric Williams at a stash house outside the city of Matamoros after gunmen moved them to multiple locations to avoid capture it was the end of a road trip for cosmetic surgery McGee Williams along with her close friends Shaheed Woodard and zendell brown traveled last week from South Carolina to Matamoros so McGee could have cosmetic surgery this video shows the moment when they were kidnapped at gunpoint after being caught in a shootout between rival cartel gangs here you see McGee being forced into the
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back of a pickup truck by armed men with others who appear hurt also dragged and loaded onto the truck bed Woodard and brown were killed traveling abroad for medicine and medical procedures is common more than a million Americans traveled to Mexico for health tourism last year spending about 250ml million dollars 38 year old Williams a husband and father was shot in the leg but is expected to survive we talked to his wife Michelle moments ago from North Carolina she didn't want to show her face but says she talked to her husband
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today did he tell you anything about that moment at all no we didn't discuss it because it was to hear his voice it was just a lot of crying my son was there and my son just wanted to hear his voice and then he had to go because he was going into the hospital news has learned that McGee had been to Mexico before for cosmetic surgery investigators are blaming the golf cartel for this incident and Mexican authorities have also announced that a 24 year old has been arrested in connection with this attack John Omar is
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there any word on the recovery of the deceased victims and bringing them back to the United States that's going to be a government process we're trying to figure out exactly the timetable for it but when there's deceased in one country moving him back to the U.S and obviously there's going to be some echinations involved that will take some time but we're expecting it to be soon and how are people reacting to this incident on uh on the U.
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S side of the board well some of them aren't really surprised a matter of fact we had a pastor tell us that there are kidnappings hundreds of kidnappings on the Mexican side all the time but they're usually Mexican Nationals and it doesn't get the attention of the American Media so it's one of those things where they're aware that it happens but the people here in Brownsville who cross over into matamoto's many do it daily they either work over there or they go eat over there and Shop daily they're not worried about what happened
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there well Mario Franca in Brownsville Texas thank you Omar