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Mom’s Selfless Act Saves Young Child’s Life In Mexican Cartel Attack On U.S. Family

John Bickley
Mom’s Selfless Act Saves Young Child’s Life In Mexican Cartel Attack On U.S. Family
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In a harrowing and tragic account posted on Facebook Tuesday morning, a relative of an American family massacred by a Mexican drug cartel in Sonora, Mexico on Monday provided more details about the cartel’s senseless acts of violence and the families’ selfless acts of heroism in the ambush.

The attack, which may have resulted from the cartel members mistaking the family’s vehicles for others, left nine people dead — three women and six of their children — but due to the actions of family members, several people caught up in the attack survived, including Faith Marie Johnson, the 7-month-old child of victim Christina Marie Langford Johnson, 29.

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