(Mata) Moros is one of the most active cities for shootouts and just widespread violence, and full on battles, like you would see in a war zone. They throw spike strips down, and like tachas, nails, and fight in full on convoys like 30 trucks. I can post some pictures, but just google Matamoros gun fights.
TJ has more killings, like targeted executions, but Moros does the running gun battles in the streets.
been a mess for years because of internal conflict with CDG factions, Los Escorpiones, Los Cicilones it goes on and on.
That woman being thrown in a truck by a sicario, with her dead friends and family members. Those guys are killers, with dozens of bodies, they are like combat soldiers.
The odds in general are in their favor, it was just an accident, one way or the other. Tensions were running high. Fingers on the trigger. though there was an alert over that weekend about running gunfights. It's a very very common occurrence. I am sure the victims had very little knowledge of what goes on. Most people don't.
Those guys are living a different life. They are killing and kidnapping every day, ambushes, betrayals, it's world of violence and short lives, and extreme collateral damage. Life is really really cheap.
*I won't say obvious, but from the first pics, and the way it went down, look at their clothes, and hers esp. they weren't headed for some sort of narco sit down, they are family people, regular people.