More than a month after four Americans were attacked and kidnapped by a drug cartel in Mexico, the two survivors say they’re still recovering from the trauma of the terrifying ordeal and the killings of their friends
. “They didn’t deserve that. None of us deserved it. But we’re alive – we have a lot of recovering to do,” LaTavia Washington McGee told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview Tuesday. Washington McGee, Eric Williams, Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown were kidnapped on March 3 as they were driving to a medical appointment in Matamoros, Mexico. Woodard and Brown were both killed.
They just stitched it up,” Williams said, adding that no one checked to see if a bullet was still inside. Washington McGee said she was put in a room with Brown, who was badly wounded and dying. “He was fighting for his life and they didn’t do nothing,” she said. “I talked to him the whole time … I just told him sorry because I asked him to come with me.” “He was like, ‘It’s okay. I’m your brother. I’m supposed to be there for you. I love you,’” Washington McGee recalled.
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