technology insights | December 30, 2025

What happened to Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown? Incident explored as officials ID American tourists killed after Mexico kidnapping

On Tuesday, Walk 7, 2023, authorities recognized Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown as two American sightseers killed during a deadly showdown between rival posses last week. On Friday, Walk 3, 2023, Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown were venturing out with two others to Mexico when they were trapped in the crossfire during a frightening shootout between two cartel individuals.

The gathering was then grabbed at gunpoint and taken to a house, where they were held until they were safeguarded by experts on Tuesday. While the other two were found alive in the house, Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown didn’t make it.

Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown were supposedly going with Eric James Williams and Latavia McGee from South Carolina to Mexico so McGee could go through a belly fold technique.

Nonetheless, the sightseers apparently got lost soon after crossing the line into Matamoros, situated in the northeastern territory of Tamaulipas. The region is a viewed as a risky area because of wild brutality in the roads. While attempting to find the facility where McGee was booked to go through the belly fold methodology, they ended up trapped in the crossfire between two opponent cartel posses.

A reconnaissance video showed shooters starting to shoot from their vehicle, killing a Mexican lady who was remaining somewhere out there. A realistic video confirmed by Reuters showed criminals driving the travelers into a white pickup truck. According to the New York Post, Brown and Woodard were killed during the shootout.

McGee, who was harmed, and Williams, who was shot in the leg, were saved on Tuesday morning at a home in a country area of Tamaulipas. Specialists said that the bodies of Brown and Woodard were likewise found at the scene.

Irving Barrios, the principal legal officer for Tamaulipas, said that the harmed people were moved to a clinic in Texas, where they are right now going through treatment. Barrios added that the bodies of Woodard and Brown will stay in Mexico for assessment prior to being moved to the US.

On March 3 four American citizens were #kidnapped by The #Cartel after they crossed into Matamoros, Mex. The victims are 32-year-old Latavia Washington, Zindell Brown, 28, Shaeed Woodard, 33, and Eric Wise/Williams. They are from SC. Latavia was in Mexico for a cosmetic procedure

— Traci Young Fant (@Fantastik1) March 7, 2023


It ought to be noticed that the U.S. State Office has forewarned Americans from visiting Tamaulipas because of expanded savagery nearby. The State Office site peruses:

“Coordinated wrongdoing action including weapon fights, murder, furnished burglary, carjacking, capturing, constrained vanishings, coercion, and rape is normal along the northern line and in Ciudad Victoria. Criminal gatherings target public and confidential traveler transports, as well as confidential vehicles going through Tamaulipas, frequently taking travelers and requesting pay-off installments.”

Specialists said that they have captured a 24-year-old José Guadalupe, who was found monitoring the house where the sightseers were safeguarded. Policing as yet searching for different suspects engaged with the unfortunate episode.