Collateral Damage: Missionary Shot to Death in Mexico

Texas - Missionary Shot to Death - NYTimes.com: "An American missionary couple was ambushed by gunmen on a highway in Mexico about 70 miles from the border on Wednesday, and the woman was fatally wounded, according to the police in Pharr, Tex. The gunmen opened fire when Samuel L. Davis refused to stop his pickup truck at an illegal roadblock near the town of San Fernando. His wife, Nancy, was shot in the head. Mr. Davis sped to the border and raced across the international bridge at Pharr, going the wrong way against traffic, to deliver his wife to the American authorities. It was too late. Ms. Davis, 59, died at a hospital in McAllen. The couple live in a rural hamlet northeast of Pharr and had done missionary work in Mexico for years. They maintained a second home in Mexico."