In a pair of attacks, gunmen opened fire on three SUVs, first upon a Chevrolet Tahoe and subsequently two Chevy Suburbans, that were carrying American Mexican independent fundamentalist Mormons of the extended LeBarón family, en route to a wedding in Le Barón, Galeana, Chihuahua, from their hometown of La Mora, Bavispe, Sonora, about 70 miles south of the Mexico–United States border.