{"id":2385409,"date":"2025-01-01T20:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T01:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-family-attacked-while-visiting-mexico-two-dead-and-others-injured\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T20:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T01:49:44","slug":"american-family-attacked-while-visiting-mexico-two-dead-and-others-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-family-attacked-while-visiting-mexico-two-dead-and-others-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"American Family Attacked While Visiting Mexico, Two Dead and Others Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerican-family-attacked-while-visiting-mexico-two-dead-and-others-injured%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2385409&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/belmont-university-freshman-shot-dead-by-criminal-who-was-just-released-by-court-over-mental-incompetence-police\/\" title=\"Belmont University freshman fatally shot by recently released mentally incompetent criminal: Police.\">tragic incident\u200d occurred<\/a> in mexico where three people were\u2062 killed, including\u2063 two American citizens from Chicago, Vicente Pe\u00f1a Rodr\u00edguez and Antonio Fern\u00e1ndez Rodr\u00edguez.The victims\u200d were part \u200cof \u2063a family celebrating a birthday \u2062when they\u2062 were\u200d attacked near Las Palmas while traveling in an SUV. A 14-year-old\u200d relative of the victims was also \u200bseverely injured and is currently in critical condition, having been placed in a medically induced coma.Family members wish to transfer the teenager back to the U.S.for treatment, but Mexican doctors\u2062 consider \u200chim too fragile for travel. The assailants shot vicente\u2063 Pe\u00f1a Rodr\u00edguez four times in the head, and Antonio was also\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-iowa-officer-has-long-criminal-history\/\" title=\"Suspect in fatal shooting of Iowa officer has long criminal history\">shot multiple times<\/a>. The emotional toll on the\u200d family has been \u200bdevastating, with relatives describing the situation as a nightmare.Advocacy groups are working to facilitate the \u200cboy\u2019s return to the U.S. for\u200d better medical \u2064care.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Three people are dead, including two Americans from Chicago, in an attack that took place in Mexico on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Vicente Pe&ntilde;a Rodr&iacute;guez and Antonio Fern&aacute;ndez Rodr&iacute;guez, who are both Americans, were killed, as was local resident Jorge Eduardo Vargas Aguirre of Durango, Mexico, the Durango Attorney General&rsquo;s Office said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/4-relatives-including-3-americans-shot-mexico-3\/story?id=117223742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vicente Pe&ntilde;a Rodr&iacute;guez&rsquo;s teenage son, whose name was not given, was wounded and was listed in critical condition, the attorney general&rsquo;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The trip had begun as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/college-student-life-support-suffering-brain-bleed-spring-break-trip-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">birthday celebration<\/a> for the 14-year-old, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/chicago-teen-in-coma-after-family-shot-during-mexico-birthday-celebration-trip\/3634813\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WMAO-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager was put in a medically induced coma.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A Chicago teenager is on life support after being shot while visiting Mexico, where three of his family members were killed in the same incident. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d8w29bcayB\">https:\/\/t.co\/d8w29bcayB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX 32 News (@fox32news) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fox32news\/status\/1874359917957480724?\">January 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Family members have said they want the teen transferred to the U.S., but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mexico-testing-new-app-immigrants-detained-us-alerts-others-nearest-consulate-enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexican<\/a> doctors say he is too fragile.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I feel very devastated because they wiped out my entire family,&rdquo; Vicente Pe&ntilde;a, grandfather of the teenage victim and father of Vicente Pe&ntilde;a Rodr&iacute;guez, said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was a massacre &hellip; because my son was shot four times in the head and once in the shoulder, and the other boy was also shot four times, once in the shoulder, and the other boy who was with them was also shot three times,&rdquo; Pe&ntilde;a said.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the shooting near the town of Las Palmas were unclear, other than that the group was traveling in an SUV with Illinois license plates when it was attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Elena Hernandez, the teenage victim&rsquo;s grandmother, said she learned of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/american-woman-targeted-mexico-kidnapping-freed-8-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shooting<\/a> when, while still in Chicago, her daughter called her, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/chicago-family-shot-mexico-2-dead-teen-coma-after-being-found-gunshot-wounds-durango-circumstances-unknown\/15729782\/?ex_cid=TA_WLS_TW&amp;taid=6773e6234fe1660001b7c99f&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WLS-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She said &lsquo;Mom, they killed my boy. They killed Junior. They killed my brother-in-law. I don&rsquo;t know what to do,&#8217;&rdquo; Hernandez said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two brothers are dead and a 14-year-old boy is fighting for his life after they were shot while visiting family in Durango, Mexico over the holidays. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wo2wrggOQs\">https:\/\/t.co\/Wo2wrggOQs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC7Chicago\/status\/1873957309770027391?\">December 31, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As you can only imagine this is a nightmare for his mother. And right now what we&rsquo;re trying to do is provide that advocacy and security,&rdquo; Julia Contreras of United Giving Hope said. The group is trying to bring the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">teenage victim back<\/a> to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;His little brother just learned of the whole situation,&rdquo; Contreras said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is very heart-wrenching and currently this family is living a nightmare. We just want to bring them home so they can be safe,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chicago teen hurt in shooting that killed his father and uncle in Mexico\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2vxUjQm4EZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;We are coordinating everything, but it&rsquo;s a challenge in the hospitals in Mexico. 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So it&rsquo;s nightmarish to be in another country, like Mexico, and not have the adequate, appropriate medical care,&rdquo; Contreras said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/mexico-shooting-chicago-boy-coma-father-uncle-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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The victims were Vicente Pe\u00f1a Rodr\u00edguez and Antonio Fern\u00e1ndez Rodr\u00edguez, both American citizens, along with local resident Jorge Eduardo Vargas Aguirre from Durango. According to the Durango Attorney General\u2019s Office and reported by ABC, Vicente Pe\u00f1a Rodr\u00edguez&#8217;s teenage son was injured and is currently in critical condition after being placed in a medically induced coma. The trip was initially meant to celebrate the boy&#8217;s 14th birthday. Family members are seeking to transfer him to the U.S., but Mexican doctors have deemed him too fragile for transport. Vicente Pe\u00f1a, the grandfather of the injured teen and father of one of the deceased, expressed his devastation over losing his family members in what he described as a massacre. Details surrounding the shooting near Las Palmas remain unclear; however, it is known that they were traveling in an SUV with Illinois plates when attacked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2385410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Chicagoans-murdered-in-Mexico.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[47727,4002,8638,5370],"class_list":["post-2385409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-american-family","tag-attack","tag-injuries","tag-mexico"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Chicagoans-murdered-in-Mexico.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385413,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385409\/revisions\/2385413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}