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Shaeed Woodard

  • The casket is carried out of the funeral for Shaeed Woodard, in Lake City, S.C., Saturday, March 25, 2023. More than 100 people gathered to remember the man gunned down three weeks earlier by a cartel in a Mexican border city. (AP Photo/James Pollard)
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    Mourners gather for American killed by cartel on Mexico trip
    James Pollard/Associated Press/Report for America
    One of the two Americans gunned down three weeks ago by a Mexican cartel is being remembered as a sweet man who hoped to celebrate his birthday with a journey over the border. Over 100 people attended a Saturday funeral for Shaeed Woodard, whose was slain just days before he turned 34 during a tightknit friend group's road trip. Since then, an attorney for the Woodards says the family has received an outpouring of support.
  • Elder Sharon Hammond uses a tissue during a vigil for a group of Americans recently kidnapped in Mexico, at Word of God Ministries in Scranton, S.C., Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Two of the four Americans, all from South Carolina, were killed after being caught in a deadly shootout while traveling last week to Matamoros for one of them to get cosmetic surgery. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
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    Sister grieves for American killed in Mexico kidnapping
    Hillary Powell/Associated Press
    The sister of an American killed in an attack in Mexico says that she and he both had a bad feeling about the trip. Zalandria Brown tells The Associated Press over the phone that her brother Zindell Brown was worried about taking his first trip outside the country. He went down with a group of friends including one woman who was treating herself to cosmetic surgery and another who was celebrating his 34th birthday. She says her brother was extremely close to her.