NEW: CBS News has learned the names of the 4 U.S. citizens who were kidnapped by multiple gunmen in northern Mexico.
in a brazen attack carried out by multiple gunmen in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros, the FBI said. CBS News has learned that the Americans are Latavia"Tay" McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Eric James Williams and Zindell Brown.
Zalandia Brown said the four knew of the dangers in Mexico and Zindell kept saying they shouldn't go. "All four Americans were placed in a vehicle and taken from the scene by armed men," the office said. The first woman is walking and sits in the back of the truck; the other two people seem to be unresponsive, but their condition is unknown. The video appears to show some of them may be wounded.
For years, a night out in Matamoros was also part of the"two-nation vacation" for spring breakers flocking to Texas' South Padre Island.
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