Former President Donald Trump and running mate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, met with the family of the U.S. Marine veteran who was killed along a Mexican highway by suspects believed to be cartel members earlier this month.
Nicholas Douglas Quets, a 31-year-old Marine veteran who worked for Pima County, Arizona, on water reclamation projects, was shot and killed along the Caborca-Altar Highway in northern Mexico on Oct. 19.
His family said Quets was driving with friends down to Rocky Point for a beach trip. The shooting happened approximately 30 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Sonora Attorney General’s Office said a vehicle pulled up alongside Quets’ pick-up truck and opened fire in a “direct attack,” according to KVOA. An armed group had tried to stop Quets’ truck at an illicit checkpoint and followed after them when they did not pull over, a Sonora official confirmed to Tucson.com.
Quets’ father and brother-in-law described to the Washington Examiner private meetings the family had with Trump and Vance last week while the Republican running mates were campaigning in Arizona.
“I did not know what to expect because he’s a TV star, billionaire, populist,” Quets’ father, retired Army Lt. Col. Warren Douglas Quets, told the Examiner. “He looked at me, looked at the picture of Nick. He had a tear in his eye, and said, ‘Tell me what happened.’ And he was actually angry as we told him the story…. He said, ‘Tell me what I can do for you and your family.’”
Quets’ father said the family has not heard from any elected officials in the Biden-Harris administration.
“A U.S. military veteran transiting Mexico was executed and four days into this and no official, outside of the consulate in Mexico, has made any effort to contact us or provide us with an update of what’s happening,” the elder Quets told the Examiner last week. “What we want is an investigation and prosecution within the United States. We want the U.S. to take over the prosecution.”
“If my case for my son is not worthy of the highest level of attention from the U.S. government, then what is?” he added. “How can this be that this Marine gets killed 30 minutes south of the border?”
“I haven’t heard from anybody, elected or appointed government officials, at all,” he added. “And I begged for that to the point where, yesterday, I wrote the consul and said, ‘Don’t worry about it anymore. I’m going to go ahead and contact [President Claudia Sheinbaum] in Mexico and ask for her help in getting the U.S. involved.’”
Quets’ father recalled the family’s private meeting with Vance beforehand, telling the Examiner, “[Vance] says, ‘You’re talking to me as JD. I want you to tell me exactly what I need to know, and I want you to tell me how I can help you. That’s what he said. So it was a really classy move, and it was sincere.”
“As an apolitical guy, you want the best for the country, which is what I’ve devoted my life to,” he added. “I left the meeting thinking I was ready to follow Vance any place.”
“My family feels more comfort in this horrible, horrific event that we’ve been dealing with,” Sweet told the Examiner. “To feel comfort from somebody that we’ve never met, but felt like he was a member of our family, and he cared about us, truly cared about us.”
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