"It was March 9, 2019, when Rhonita Maria LeBaron-Miller, a 30-year-old American woman belonging to a Mormon community in Mexico, was preparing for the birth of her twins. She was four days away from her scheduled delivery date at the Madero Hospital, in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. She and her husband, Howard Miller, lived in the Mexican town of La Mora."
"That same March 9, a man went to a gun store across the border in the United States and bought an Anderson 5.56 caliber semi-automatic rifle. Eight months later, this weapon would be used in the massacre of Howard and Krystal, Rhonita, and her twins, who were less than a year old. Two other mothers and two more children would also be killed. In the armed attack, attributed to drug cartels, there were 14 children in total, four of them infants. Only eight survived."
"The three SUVs, which were traveling on a dirt road along the border between the two Mexican states, were riddled with bullets. A total of 1,893 shell casings of various calibers were recovered from the scene some of them from U.S. army rifles. The attackers used 31 weapons, with two of the rifles being traced back to two gun shops in Arizona and New Mexico."
On March 9, 2019, Rhonita Maria LeBaron-Miller prepared for the birth of her twins while living in a Mormon community on the Sonora–Chihuahua border. Eight months after a man bought an Anderson 5.56 rifle in the United States, attackers used that weapon in a mass shooting that killed multiple members of the LeBaron family and other mothers and children. The ambush left three SUVs riddled with bullets and resulted in 1,893 shell casings recovered, from various calibers including U.S. army rifles. Investigators identified use of 31 weapons and traced two rifles to gun shops in Arizona and New Mexico. No authority completed a thorough probe of weapon origins or how arms reached drug cartels.
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