Two surviving Americans who were were kidnapped at gunpoint in Matamoros, Mexico last week are being treated at US hospitals.
Their two friends who were also abducted died during the incident.
One man, identified only as José “N”, 24, from Tamaulipas, has been arrested.
Latavia Washington McGee is recovering at the hospital with no injuries while Eric Williams is at a Texas hospital to undergo surgery for three gunshot wounds in his leg, his wife told CNN.
Michelle Williams said the news her husband was alive brought relief to her and their 11-year-old son, she told local ABC affiliate WBTW.
“My heart is breaking for the other two families that don’t get to say the same,” she said.
Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown died after unidentified gunmen opened fire as the group of four drove a white minivan on 3 March through Matamoros, a city of 500,000 people located directly across the border from the Texas town of Brownsville.
A Mexican woman, believed to be a 33-year-old bystander more than one block away, was killed in last Friday’s incident.
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