AP: Two Americans slain by captors in Mexico

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Two Americans slain by captors in Mexico

ASSOCIATED PRESS

October 24, 2004

ACAPULCO, Mexico – Four gunmen abducted three U.S. citizens on a rural highway in southern Mexico, shot and killed two of them and left the third – a pregnant woman – bound and gagged, authorities said yesterday.

Reynaldo Valdez, 22, of Houston, traveled to Guerrero state with Miami natives Ashley Linn Diniger, 16, and Vanessa Burgos, 22, to visit Valdez's mother in Cutzamala de Pinzon, a city near neighboring Michoacan state, said Antonio Nogeda, a Guerrero investigator. The trio had left Cutzamala de Pinzon late Thursday when a vehicle carrying four men forced their sport utility vehicle off the road near the community of Tierra Caliente, Nogeda said.

The gunmen put the Americans into a sedan without license plates, drove them to a nearby community and robbed them. The abductors later shot and killed Valdez and Diniger from close range.

They spared the life of Burgos, apparently because she was pregnant. Her testimony led to the arrests Friday of Isidro Diaz Pineda, Reynaldo Hernandez Ramirez, Francisco Velazquez Paredes and David Gaona Mondragon, all of Tierra Caliente.


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