Families of men presumed to be two Australians and American who went missing in Baja California arrive in Tijuana to identify bodies
The bodies believed to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing in the Pacific coast state of Baja California showed the three men were killed with gunshots to the head, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.
María Elena Andrade Ramírez, the state’s attorney general, said the families of the missing men had arrived in Tijuana to verbally identify the bodies. Authorities expected to have official confirmation shortly.
Callum and Jake Robinson, both in their 30s, were Australian siblings from Perth. Jake was visiting Callum, who lived in San Diego, California, for a planned surfing holiday, with their friend Jack Carter Rhoad, a US citizen who also lived in San Diego. The trio were reported missing when they failed to check in to pre-arranged accommodation in Rosarito, Mexico, last weekend.
The bodies were found dumped in a remote well about 15m deep, about 6km from the camping site where the foreigners were killed. If relatives could not identify the bodies, genetic tests would be conducted.
Pretty scary to me as I was just down there around Ensenada a few weeks before and go fairly often to multiple spots in the region from San Diego
Edit: I’ve had lots of great times in Baja it’s a great place, which is why this scares me as it isn’t some cartel territorial, drug deal or political violence and seems more like a meth addicts robbing and killing campers / surfers that could totally be me or my friends. My best friend says he’s even been to that spot
Horrific, my condolences to the family.
The victims’ relatives identified the bodies without need for genetic tests, the state attorney general’s office said in a statement
ETA: I’m glad the families didn’t have to wait for test results, but it’s still heart-wrenching. I feel so badly for them.
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The bodies believed to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing in the Pacific coast state of Baja California showed the three men were killed with gunshots to the head, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.
María Elena Andrade Ramírez, the state’s attorney general, said the families of the missing men had arrived in Tijuana to verbally identify the bodies.
In keeping with Mexican law, prosecutors identified him only by his first name, Jesús Gerardo, AKA “el Kekas”, a slang word that means quesadillas, or cheese tortillas.
Dozens of mourners, surfers and demonstrators gathered in a main plaza in Ensenada, the nearest city, to voice their anger and sadness at the deaths.
The brothers’ parents, Martin and Debra Robinson, told Australian news outlets they were heading to Mexico to be close during the search.
In 2015, Western Australian surfers Adam Coleman and Dean Lucas were murdered, believed to have been shot by gang members in the neighbouring Sinaloa region before their van and bodies were burnt.
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