Mexico’s president appeared to cry when listening to the Mormon history of La Mora and seemed sincere in wanting to capture the gunmen who killed three mothers and six children with Utah ties, two of the victims relatives said Monday.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited La Mora, in the Mexican state of Sonora, on Sunday to discuss the Nov. 4 deaths. Before public remarks later in the day, López Obrador met in the home of Kenny Miller, whose daughter-in-law and four grandchildren were among the dead.
The meeting included an introduction by one of La Mora’s founders, Paul Langford, known as “Don Pablo,” who told the president how the community can trace its lineage to when members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fled violence in Missouri in the 1830s and then how some Mormons left Utah at the start of the 20th century to continue practicing polygamy.