“...$160,000 armored Suburban.”
Did he get out of it and was killed? If not, that was a crappy armoring job for $160k. He should have been able to ride it out inside until help arrived if it was done properly, unless the ambushers used RPGs or mortars. I can’t remember the details of the story.
Just read this article, but it doesn’t give any real detail:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/16/jamie-zapata-killed-mexico-us-immigration_n_824084.html
We won’t know it all for a while.
Armored SUV could not protect U.S. agents in MexicoZapata put the vehicle in park. The door locks popped open.
That terrifying sound — a quiet click — set into motion events that remain under investigation. When Zapata needed it most, the Suburban’s elaborate armoring was rendered worthless by a consumer-friendly automatic setting useful for family vacations and hurried commuters but not for U.S. agents driving through a red zone in Mexico.