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The four South Carolinians had spent two hours in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, when a truck slammed into their minivan and bullets shattered their windows. What happened next, in broad daylight on the morning of March 3, made national news: The attackers, at gunpoint, tossed the passengers into their pickup truck and drove away. Two of them were later found dead. On the street, Areli Pablo Servando, a 33-year-old Mexican woman, lay in a pool of blood. She had been killed by a stray bullet. A large crowd of onlookers watched in stunned silence. “There were so many people all around, but you could have heard a pin drop,” said an American woman who drove past the scene, not far from the…

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