American Tourists Shot ‘Execution-style’ at Checkpoint in Mexico in Front of 12-Year-Old Son

American Tourists Shot ‘Execution-style’ at Checkpoint in Mexico in Front of 12-Year-Old Son
State police patrol ahead of the visit of Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to Badiraguato, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, Mexico on February 15, 2019. Daniel Becerril/REUTERS
Simon Veazey
Updated:

An American tourist couple were pulled out of their car at a checkpoint in Mexico and shot in the head, execution-style, in front of their  12-year-old son, according to reports.

The family from Utah were driving from Acapulco to a beach resort town through the dangerous Guerrero region, where armed gangs frequently use roadblocks to extort travelers, on July 19.

Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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