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‘We’re never coming back here again’ — Families with ties to Utah plan to move out of Mexico community stunned by killings

La Mora, Mexico • Sitting at his mother’s kitchen table, slicing and tearing open a pomegranate grown in one of the orchards here, Ben Langford said he was done with La Mora and Mexico.

“If I can sell, I’ll sell,” Langford said of his house and ranch. “As of right now, half the families are moving out of here.”

A few hours earlier, Langford had helped shovel dirt onto the graves of his sister-in-law, Dawna Langford, and two of her sons, 11-year-old Trevor and 2-year-old Rogan. They died in the shootings Monday that killed three mothers and six children.