[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Flat tire could have put tragic Mormon family in the crossfire of battling Mexican drug cartels
- At least nine U.S. citizens, including six children, who live in the Mexican border state of Sonora were killed in a shooting attack Monday
- Rhonita Maria LeBaron, died along with her 6-month-old twins and her two other children, aged 10 and 12
- Christina Langford Johnson, Dawna Langford and two of Dawna's children, aged 11 and three, were also killed
- The victims belong to the LeBaron family - a breakaway Mormon community that settled in the hills of northern Mexico decades ago
- The family members were traveling in three cars from the settlement: One mother was heading to Phoenix while the other two mothers were driving to Chihuahua for a wedding on Friday
- Family members say one of the mothers had broken down after getting a flat tire
- Mexico's top security official Alfonso Durazo said on Tuesday cartel gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for rival gangs
- Nine of the family members were slaughtered in the massacre and one child was still missing. Six children were wounded in the attack and five have since been transferred to hospitals in Phoenix, Arizona
- Relatives say one boy managed to hide his wounded siblings - some less than a year old - in bushes before he ran back to their settlement to get help after his mother was gunned down
- One of the mothers who was killed managed to save her seven-month-old baby's life by throwing the infant to the floor of their SUV as bullets tore through the vehicle
- Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would discuss security on Tuesday with the U.S. after Trump fired off a series of tweets.
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