Vicente Peña Jr., 38, and Antonio ‘Tony’ Fernandez, 44, both of Chicago, were killed in the shooting, along with 22-year-old Jorge Eduardo Vargas Aguirre. Three family members are dead and a teenager is fighting for his life after they were shot while on a birthday celebration trip in Mexico.
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Vicente Peña Jr., 38, and his brother Antonio “Tony” Fernandez, 44, both of Chicago, were killed in the roadside attack in Durango, Mexico, along with 22-year-old Jorge Eduardo Vargas Aguirre, another family member who was a resident of the Mexican state.
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Peña Jr. and his 14-year-old son, whose name has not been released, traveled to Mexico to celebrate his birthday and to visit family over the holiday when their trip turned into a nightmare. According to local authorities, the family had been driving a black GMC Yukon with Illinois plates when they were attacked during what officials described as a surge in violent crime in the area.
![[Brothers Jake and Callum Robinson from Australia and American Jack Carter Rhoad, were last seen on a camping trip in the city of Ensenada when they vanished. They were later found dead]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/05/10/14/surfers%20split.jpg)
Peña and his son, along with Fernandez and Aguirre, were found next to the SUV on Friday night with gunshot wounds to their heads. Details of what led to the shooting are not clear and it is unknown whether this was a targeted attack or a robbery gone wrong.
“It was a massacre ... because my son was shot four times in the head and once in the shoulder, and the other boy was also shot four times, once in the shoulder, and the other boy who was with them was also shot three times,” Peña added.”. The teenager’s grandmother, Maria Elena Hernandez, who was home in Chicago at the time of the shooting, told WLS through a translator about the moment she heard the news in a heartbreaking call from her daughter.
