![]() The bodies of the nine victims killed have been returned to their family ranch, LeBaron said Tuesday.įunerals are expected to take place within the next 48 hours. I’ve never seen such a strength of unity and love in a family as large as ours. “We love and support each other no matter what our individual beliefs. One of the victim’s relatives said some members practice polygamy.ĭespite some differences between individual beliefs, “we are a massive family,” Langford said. Generally, the community is fundamentalist. The rest of my extended family was raised about the same as me, some fundamentalist, some are now LDS, depending on who you’re talking with.”įamily members describe themselves as part of a Mormon community of about 3,000 members, living in their own agricultural community in Mexico. I joined on my own along with a lot of my family about five years ago. “I was raised as a fundamentalist Mormon, not part of the church. “I was born in Mexico, but mostly raised in the US,” Langford said. Tiffany Langford, who also lost relatives in the attack, said she was not raised in the LDS church but is now part of it. Kendra Lee Miller said the community’s members descended from Mormon settlers, and that some members are still practicing members of the church. “From what I can tell, these were members of a polygamist sect, and not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” “We are heartbroken to hear of the tragedy that has touched these families in Mexico,” spokesman Eric Hawkins told CNN. ![]() The Mormons who were attacked appear to be members of a fundamentalist sect that is separate from the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an LDS church spokesman said. “There were remains inside and outside of the vehicle.” ‘We are a massive family’ All they found was charred remains, ash and bones,” Kendra Miller said. ![]() “My dad, Andre and couple of uncles and relatives went to check up on the vehicle. “Then (he) saw the explosion, went to check it out, saw it was my mother’s vehicle, full of bullet holes, completely ablaze,” she said. “My brother was fixing Rhonita’s broken-down vehicle, saw a fire, didn’t think anything of it,” Kendra Miller said. Kendra said her brother Andre was on the mountain road near La Mora when he saw a fire in the distance where the caravan of three cars was attacked. Rhonita took another family car with her children and continued on the journey with the other two vehicles, Kendra said. Rhonita and her children left her disabled car behind and then traveled back to La Mora with the other two women and their children to get another car. “Dawna was going to visit her family with her children in Chihuahua,” Kendra Miller said.Īnother member of the La Mora community, 29-year-old Christina Marie Langford Johnson, was driving the third car and “was going to meet her husband and the rest of her children because they were all moving up to North Dakota.”Īt one point in their journey, Rhonita’s vehicle broke down with a flat tire, Kendra Miller said. In a second car, 43-year-old Dawna Ray Langford was driving, Kendra Miller said. The family was supposed to go to Kendra’s wedding next week In La Mora, the bride-to-be said. Rhonita Miller, 30, was driving with some of her seven children from La Mora, Mexico - where her family’s ranch is located - to Arizona to pick up her husband Howard, who was in the US for work, Kendra Miller said. “They were driving together for safety reasons,” said Kendra Lee Miller, whose sister-in-law Rhonita Maria Miller was killed in the attack. In each of the three cars attacked, a mother was driving children to see family. Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said the attack could have been a case of mistaken identity of “conflicting groups in the area.” ‘They were driving together for safety reasons’ “Mothers were screaming for the fire to stop.” “Women and children were massacred, burned alive,” LeBaron said.
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