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2019-11-10 -Lurid Crime Tales-

After burying last victims, some in Mexico's breakaway Mormon community head north

COLONIA LEBARON, Mexico (Reuters) - Members of a breakaway Mormon community tucked in the hills of northern Mexico buried the last of their dead on Saturday after a devastating massacre, and some headed for safer ground in the United States.

Hundreds of friends and family from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border gathered in rural Colonia LeBaron to honor Christina Langford, who died in an ambush on Monday that killed nine. Family members say she exited her car with her arms outstretched to signal she was not a gang member - but not before wedging her infant daughter’s car seat on the floor of the vehicle.

The baby, Faith, was found unharmed in the bullet-riddled sport utility vehicle.

In a simple wooden church, pews were packed for a service that brought to a close three straight days of funerals. At the center of the altar, an arrangement of white flowers spelled the word "Mommy."

"She brought light wherever she went," said Grecia Yuvel LeBaron, a friend of Langford’s. "We grew up together and thought that we would be friends forever."

With the rites of mourning behind them, many in the community are now at a crossroads, unsure whether they are willing to risk staying in Mexico after the murders shattered their sense of safety.

Related: AP - Community leaving after Mexico violence arrives in Arizona

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-10 05:21|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 If its multi-generational (that is if the great grandparents or grandparents were American, but everyone else since born were in Mexico) are they Americans?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-10 06:49|| 2019-11-10 06:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Revealed: Mormon mothers and children WERE shot at point-blank range in a 'targeted assassination' by cartel gunmen - as brutal murders prompt Americans to pack up and flee Mexico

Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-10 08:24|| 2019-11-10 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 A massacre already forgotten

Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-10 17:38|| 2019-11-10 17:38|| Front Page Top

#4 The hurricane passes and silence
Descends upon little white islands.
A furious mess,
An incurious press,
And a musty old file: "Mormon Violence".

Posted by Cyrano de Flogerac6220 2019-11-10 19:23|| 2019-11-10 19:23|| Front Page Top

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