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Former Stevenson Univ. and Chesapeake Bayhawks lacrosse player identified as 1 of 3 killed for truck's tires in Mexico
3 bodies in Mexican well identified as Australian and American surfers killed for truck’s tires
The Associated Press
May 6, 2024, 6:02 AM
The Stevenson University community is grieving after one of the school’s former lacrosse players was found dead in Mexico, WTOP's Cheyenne Corin reports.
Callum Robinson #10 of the Chesapeake Bayhawks in position during a MLL Lacrosse game against the Boston Cannons at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on July 16, 2015 in Annapolis, Maryland. Robinson, who attended from Stevenson University, was found dead in a Mexican well after going missing last weekend, Mexican authorities said Sunday. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)(Getty Images/Mitchell Layton)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Relatives have identified three bodies found in a well as those of two Australian surfers and one American who went missing last weekend, Mexican authorities said Sunday. ... Baja California state prosecutors said the relatives had viewed the corpses recovered from a remote well about 50 feet (15 meters) deep and recognized them as their loved ones.
Thieves apparently killed the three, who were on a surfing trip to Mexico’s Baja peninsula, to steal their truck because they wanted the tires. They then allegedly got rid of the bodies by dumping them in a well near the coast. ... The well was located some 4 miles (6 kilometers) from where the foreigners were killed, and also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer. ... Three suspects are being held in connection with the case, which locals said was solved far more quickly than the disappearances of thousands of Mexicans.
The three men were on a camping and surfing trip along a stretch of coast south of the city of Ensenada, posting idyllic photos on social media of waves and isolated beaches, before they went missing last weekend. ... Chief state prosecutor María Elena Andrade Ramírez described what likely would have been moments of terror that ended the trip for brothers Jake and Callum Robinson from Australia and American Jack Carter Rhoad.
She theorized the killers drove by and saw the foreigners’ pickup truck and tents and wanted to steal their tires. But “when (the foreigners) came up and caught them, surely, they resisted.” ... She said that’s when the killers would have shot the tourists.
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The Associated Press
May 6, 2024, 6:02 AM
The Stevenson University community is grieving after one of the school’s former lacrosse players was found dead in Mexico, WTOP's Cheyenne Corin reports.
Callum Robinson #10 of the Chesapeake Bayhawks in position during a MLL Lacrosse game against the Boston Cannons at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on July 16, 2015 in Annapolis, Maryland. Robinson, who attended from Stevenson University, was found dead in a Mexican well after going missing last weekend, Mexican authorities said Sunday. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)(Getty Images/Mitchell Layton)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Relatives have identified three bodies found in a well as those of two Australian surfers and one American who went missing last weekend, Mexican authorities said Sunday. ... Baja California state prosecutors said the relatives had viewed the corpses recovered from a remote well about 50 feet (15 meters) deep and recognized them as their loved ones.
Thieves apparently killed the three, who were on a surfing trip to Mexico’s Baja peninsula, to steal their truck because they wanted the tires. They then allegedly got rid of the bodies by dumping them in a well near the coast. ... The well was located some 4 miles (6 kilometers) from where the foreigners were killed, and also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer. ... Three suspects are being held in connection with the case, which locals said was solved far more quickly than the disappearances of thousands of Mexicans.
The three men were on a camping and surfing trip along a stretch of coast south of the city of Ensenada, posting idyllic photos on social media of waves and isolated beaches, before they went missing last weekend. ... Chief state prosecutor María Elena Andrade Ramírez described what likely would have been moments of terror that ended the trip for brothers Jake and Callum Robinson from Australia and American Jack Carter Rhoad.
She theorized the killers drove by and saw the foreigners’ pickup truck and tents and wanted to steal their tires. But “when (the foreigners) came up and caught them, surely, they resisted.” ... She said that’s when the killers would have shot the tourists.
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