Sonora Mexico killings

[User Suspended]

I throw this question out to the utehub gang as most of you are Mormon.

Were the people tragically killed part of the Mormon church or a polygamist subset of the church?

 

[ironman1315]

From what I have read, a little of both. Some were polygamists. Some were not.

[utefansince79]

Seems unrelated to their involvement with any particular religious based group.  My perception is they were mistaken for a rival drug cartel.

 

[MussMan]

They weren’t mistaken for a rival cartel. It was a targeted attack on this family. They have a history of trying to stand up to the cartels, and the cartels are trying to make a statement to them.

Here’s an article from back in June talking about 2 other relatives of the family who were murdered by the cartel.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/news/mormon-colonies-fighting-drug-cartels-

[jamarcus24]

The story I read described them as members of an offshoot church.  It also used the term fundamentalist but didn’t directly imply that’s what they were.

[ProudUte]

Nine people (six children) were horrifically killed.  Does it matter what religion they belonged to?

[PlainsUte]

The national press thinks it deserves mention, like in the headlines…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/11/05/la-mora-mormon-family-killed-sonora-mexico-what-we-know/4163210002/

[Stone]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints issued a statement, expressing sadness of the tragedy and clarifying that the deceased are not members of that church — i.e., the deceased are part of an offshoot.

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-statement-mexico-tragedy-2019

[pdxute]

They were Mormons, though not members of the Utah-based church.

[PlainsUte]

Why does the Mormon Church care whether or not the family is in their church or another Joseph Smith-following church???

[ironman1315]

Probably because the media asked them about it a bunch.