A 14-year-old pregnant U.S. citizen was shot by police in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas after the vehicle she was in failed to stop at the authorities' command, UK MailOnline reported.
The teen and her 4-month-old fetus were wounded, but the Tamaulipas state prosecutor's office confirmed late Monday that they were not in danger of dying.
The shooting, which occurred around midnight on a Reynosa street near the international bridge leading to Pharr, Texas, comes on the heels of another incident last week where three bodies were discovered and identified to be missing U.S. citizens near the border city of Matamoros.
Over the weekend, a boy and a girl were approached by state police officers while they were parked outside a convenience store. When the police officials signaled for the truck to stop, the male driver took off and police started firing shots at the truck's tires in order to halt the vehicle.
When the truck finally stopped, the driver escaped. The female passenger, however, had been shot in the belly and was transported to a hospital, according to the Associated Press.
The prosecutor's office said the state police officers would be questioned in the case.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico said it was aware of reports that an American citizen had been shot in Reynosa, but could not provide further details.
Last week, Mexican authorities found four people shot to death near the border city of Matamoros. DNA testing confirmed that three of the bodies belonged to U.S. citizens who had gone missing two weeks ago while on a visit to Mexico, according to a statement issued by the Tamaulipas state prosecutor's office. The fourth body is believed to be one of the American victim's 32-year-old Mexican boyfriend who had disappeared along with them.
The victims were identified as 26-year-old Erica Alvarado, 22-yer-old Alex Alvarado and 21-year-old Jose Angel Alvarado by their father Pedro Alvarado in a morgue in Matamoros, mother Raquel Alvarado said.
"Since 2010, the border cities just south of the Texas border have been the scene of constant violence since the main criminal organization in the area, the Gulf Cartel, went to war with their former enforcers, the Zetas, and then went through a series of fractures that caused the organization to implode into various factions," according to Breitbart.
