A seven-year-old American girl was fatally shot by Mexican police after her family were allegedly mistaken for members of a drug cartel.
The girl, Aranza Aydelany Pardo, was killed on October 29 while traveling with her family in Matamoros, Mexico, a region near the US – Mexico border where police were carrying out an anti-cartel operation.
Mexican police opened fire on the girl’s family’s vehicle from a helicopter during the drug enforcement operation, and she was killed after being struck in the head.
The shooting unfolded after police captured alleged Gulf Cartel gangster Alfredo Cárdenas Rodríguez earlier in the day, which led members
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