Post Date: 20th Feb, 2011 - 7:08pm / Post ID:
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Us Missionary Possibly Killed Over Truck
I saw this a while ago and I thought in adding it here.
How unfortunate for this couple but I was wondering why were they driving such an expensive truck in an area where is drug infested? It makes no sense to me. Even the officers at the border described the US$50,000 truck as an eye-catcher.
QUOTE PHARR, Texas -- An American missionary couple who were allegedly attacked by gunmen in a dangerous part of Mexico may have been targeted for their expensive pickup truck, because drug gangs covet the vehicles, police said Thursday.
Damage to the 2008 Chevrolet pickup truck that Sam Davis frantically drove against traffic across a border bridge Wednesday with his bleeding wife next to him suggests that another vehicle tried to run the couple off the road, Pharr police Chief Ruben Villescas said Thursday.
Nancy Davis was pronounced dead at a McAllen, Texas, hospital more than an hour after her husband reached the Pharr International Bridge border checkpoint. Her husband told investigators that that he and his wife were driving near the city of San Fernando, about 70 miles south of the Mexican border city of Reynosa, when gunmen in a pickup truck tried to stop them. When the Davises sped up, the gunmen fired, shooting Nancy Davis in the head.
Pharr said Nancy Davis was struck in the head by a bullet that shattered her vehicle's back window...