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<p>Over a month after four Americans were assaulted and kidnapped by a <strong>Mexican</strong> drug cartel, two survivors are revealing details of their captivity as they recover from the trauma of the ordeal and the death of their two friends.</p>
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<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_515C71A4-0C77-6565-FB1D-74909F55588C@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">“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 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AT6AJLZnOU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN’s</a> Anderson Cooper during an exclusive interview Tuesday.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;" data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_B9CD53E7-6BF5-6695-08EA-745BC1AF9B03@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">Survivors Of Mexican Kidnapping Reveal Horrifying Details Of Time In Captivity</h3>
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_B9CD53E7-6BF5-6695-08EA-745BC1AF9B03@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">On March 3, Washington McGee, Eric Williams, Shaeed Woodard, and Zindell Brown were kidnapped while traveling to a medical appointment in Matamoros, Mexico. Both Woodard and Brown were killed, while McGee and Williams survived.</p>
<p data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_D8D3E10D-757E-8CC9-FA54-745BC1C67309@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">The group was driving across the U.S.-Mexico border when they heard a car horn beeping behind them. Brown looked back. Then saw the occupants had guns and told the others not to stop the vehicle, Washington McGee recalled.</p>
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_D8D3E10D-757E-8CC9-FA54-745BC1C67309@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">That&#8217;s when the shooting started, according to Williams.</p>
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<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_27E1EF53-E554-4B75-C423-745BC1CC0052@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">“Zindell and Shaeed, they jumped up to run and they were gunned down,” Williams said.</p>
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<p>Williams was shot in both legs after jumping out of the driver&#8217;s side door as someone started beating on the car window with a gun.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Washington McGee was forced by gunpoint into the bed of a pickup truck, disturbing CCTV footage shows, and the others were carried onto it.</p>
<p data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_B9CD53E7-6BF5-6695-08EA-745BC1AF9B03@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">Investigators believe the group was mistaken for Haitian drug smugglers; a U.S. official previously told CNN.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Deceased Were Both Still Alive When Their Limp Bodies Were Tossed Into The Back Of Pickup Truck</h3>
<p>Williams and Washington McGee told CNN that Brown and Woodward were still alive when their limp bodies were dragged and tossed onto the truck bed.</p>
<p>The outlet reports that the group was then driven to another location where they were interrogated.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;That’s where Shaeed said, &#8216;I love y’all, and I’m gone.&#8217; And he died right there,&#8221; Williams said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Washington McGee recalled he told Woodard he was sorry as the latter lay dying in the back of the truck.</p>
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<blockquote><p>“He said he loved us and he was gone. It was the last thing he said,” Williams said through tears.</p></blockquote>
<p>McGee and Williams say they were moved to several different locations over the next few days as they remained in captivity, whole being blindfolded between switching spots.</p>
<p>The group was eventually taken to a house where people wearing red plastic &#8220;Diablo&#8221; masks &#8220;pointed guns to our head, telling us not to look up,&#8221; Williams said.</p>
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_D4140593-8595-1007-43AF-745BC1D97A19@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">Later, Williams was taken to a clinic where they stitched him up and put his leg on a piece of wood, adding that no one even checked to see if a bullet was still inside.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Survivor Recalls Being Placed In Room With Dying Friend: &#8220;It&#8217;s Okay, I&#8217;m Your Brother&#8221; He Said</h3>
<p>McGee says she was placed in a room with Brown as he lay dying and mortally wounded.</p>
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<blockquote><p>“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.”</p></blockquote>
<p>McGee continued: “He was like, ‘It’s okay. I’m your brother. I’m supposed to be there for you. I love you.'&#8221;</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Six People Arrested In Mexico So Far In Connection To The Fatal Kidnappings, Officials Say</h3>
<p>McGee and Williams were finally rescued on March 7 after being dropped off at a wooden shack. The two survivors and the bodies of their friends were eventually brought back to the U.S.</p>
<p>An apology letter was later released and found by the Gulf cartel.</p>
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