This archive report was first published on 8 November 2019.
On November 8, 2019, a convoy of vehicles bearing the coffins of Rhonita Miller and her children left Rancho la Mora, a border town between Mexico's violent northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua, for their burial plot in the LeBaron neighborhood in nearby Galeana.
Miller and her children died along with four other people in a hail of bullets on a rural road in the lawless region, where all had dual US-Mexican citizenship.
Four of the victims were buried in the first of the funerals, with relatives and friends of the Mormon community from various parts of the United States in attendance.
"It was not an attack on us, but there is confusion -- someone is wanting to send a message and they used our family," said Adrian LeBaron, Miller's father, in a statement.
The attack occurred on an isolated dirt road in a region known for turf wars between drug cartels fighting over lucrative trafficking routes to the United States.
