U.S. couple killed while visiting violence-riddled part of western Mexico

A couple from the United States was shot and killed while visiting the western Mexican state of Michoacan, which has been overrun by a wave of violent crime.

State prosecutors said in a statement Thursday that the couple – identified as Gloria A., 50, and Rafael C., 53 – was traveling in a pickup truck in the municipality of Angamacutiro on Wednesday when they were shot and killed.

The woman died at the scene and the man died from his injuries shortly after at a local hospital, the statement added.