Two teenagers, age 15 and 14, were last seen on a snapchat video, violently beaten, pistol whipped, covered in blood and unconscious with what appeared to be broken bones. One of the men who beat the teens posted a picture on social media holding the 2 boys up as if they were trophies. Snapchat is refusing to cooperate with police. The boys were selling marijuana and it's believed it was a deal gone bad.
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Missing Albuquerque teenagers last seen being beaten on video
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - Albuquerque Police are looking for two teens who were recorded on Snapchat being badly beaten.
"As a mother...he's gone, you don't know where he is and you can't help him," said Amanda Kimbrel.
Kimbrel is the mother of 15-year-old Collin Romero. She says her son was seen in a Snapchat video along with his friend, 14 year-old Ahmed Lateef, being beaten up on the West Mesa.
The video showed Collin and Ahmed bleeding heavily with what appeared to be broken bones. The pair has not been seen since.
"On Monday morning I got a phone call from one of my son's friends, saying that he went outside to give somebody some weed and then never came back," she said.
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Desperate search for beloved teens, aged 15 and 14, who went missing after they were filmed in Snapchat video being brutally beaten and pistol-whippedNew Mexico teens Collin Romero, 15, and Ahmed Lateef, 14, went missing on December 16
They were last seen in a Snapchat video being beaten in West Mesa desert
Authorities have issued a warrant for Snapchat to hand over the violent video
Collin Romero, 15, and Ahmed Lateef, 14, went missing on December 16 in what cops believe was a drug deal gone wrong in Albuquerque.
Their heartbroken families are pleading for Snapchat to hand over the video of the beatdown and any other relevant information to police...
The Snapchat video allegedly shows the boys being beaten up in the West Mesa desert. Ahmed's Snapchat location also last pinged in the Mesa...
Kimbrel said she hasn't seen the video herself, but heard about its bloody and horrifying nature. In the clip the boys are allegedly covered in blood and are unconscious.
'They were being beaten very, very brutally, pistol-whipped. Snapchat has this information and they are refusing to hand it over,' she said.
She says that police have issued a warrant to Snapchat asking for the footage.
According to Collin's grandmother Kelen Kimbrell, there's also a social media photo of the boys in the back of a car.
'We've been told there's a photo of the boys in the back seat of the car, with a man in the middle holding them as if they are trophies,' Kelen said to KRQE.
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