23. She slept beside her husband’s coffin

“It’s a big city so there are many, but the one that stuck with me so much was the story of a woman who lost her husband. Prior to that she lost her two kids to a car accident, and then her husband died from cancer. When he died, and on the last night of the funeral, people said she had the coffin laid on her bed where she slept beside it for the whole night.

That one struck me as a kid because it actually happened (a friend was a neighbor of the woman).” — moxbuncher

24. They shot a pregnant woman and a baby

“Mexican here.

In September 17 of 1998, at 3:40 AM a commando of sicarios enter a small ranch in el Sauzal, municipality of Ensenada in Baja California.

There were 3 houses interconnected by each other at the ranch, and the commando divided their men to enter each of the houses, they shot a 12 year old that his only mistake was to open the door.

One by one they raided las casas, until they found their guy, a rural teacher than went bad and was now in the drug business. They killed him at the spot, The rest of family and neighbors, 19 to be exact was put against the floor, ‘What do we do with them?’ a Sicario asked. ‘The only thing we can do, kill them all’ and so they did.

They shot a 8 month baby, a pregnant girl, an abuelita, the sister, the brother, the innocent…

I would say that is the worse thing that has happen in my town.” — Frankocean2