The bodies of brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, the Australian surfers murdered in Ensenada, in the border state of Baja California, Mexico, were transferred this Thursday to the United Stateswhere they were awaited by their families.
According to testimony, Callum and Jake were with Jack Carter Rhoad near Ensenada, a Baja California port city popular with surfers, when they disappeared on April 27.
The reports indicate that The three arrived at the beach of Puerto Faro San José to practice surfing over the weekend. On Monday, April 29, they were scheduled to arrive at an Airbnb located in Rosarito, but they never arrived.
During the morning of May 3, local media reported that elements of the state prosecutor’s office had located three bodies with signs of violence in an area near where, it is stated, the three foreign tourists were last seen.
After the macabre discovery, the head of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), María Elena Andrade, confirmed to the media that the parents of both young people recognized the bodies, so the release process was carried out through the Funeral Home. San José de Ensenada, a town located 100 kilometers south of Tijuana.
The funeral carriage arrived at the facilities of the Santana Funerary Group, in the border city, where they left the bodies to be protected. and make the final arrangements for their entry into US soil.
The two bodies were taken from the funeral home to the United States this Thursday morning from the border port of Otay.where the internment process had to be carried out, to later be with their parents and relatives who were waiting for them in San Diego (California).
The driver of the float, Jovanny Hernández, confirmed to the media present, including EFE, that it was the bodies of the Robinson brothers.
“I was in charge of moving them, we handed over the two young men of Australian nationality (…) The two brothers are here, the American was taken to another funeral home,” he said.
The brothers, along with their American friend Jack Carter, were murdered while camping in the town of Santo Tomás, municipality of Ensenada, and their bodies found on May 3 in a water well in a place known as La Bocana, with signs of gunshot wounds to the head and in a state of decomposition.
This Wednesday in Ensenada the hearing was held, in which Jesús Gerardo alias ‘El Kekas’, alleged responsible for the murders, was ordered to be prosecuted. For now, he is the only one prosecuted for the events, although the Prosecutor’s Office does not rule out the participation of more people.
“For the crime of forced disappearance committed by private individuals, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office managed to link Jesús Gerardo ‘N’, alias ‘El Kekas’, to the trial, who will remain in preventive detention after his involvement in the crime committed to the detriment of two brothers of Australian origin and an American in Ensenada,” says the statement that was shared by the prosecutor’s office to the media.
The governor of Baja California, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, spoke this Thursday about the case on her social networks.
“Governing means assuming the problems of the people who live in Baja California as our own (…) There will be no impunity and we will stand up to do justice,” he indicated.
*With information from EFE.
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