Missing Australian, American surfers found dead in well with gunshot wounds
Three surfers who went missing in Mexico over a week ago have been confirmed dead after their bodies were identified by relatives, Mexican officials announced Sunday.
It’s believed the men were victims of a violent carjacking. One person has been charged and two others are currently in police custody in connection with the men’s deaths.
Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Jack Carter Rhoad were found dead at the bottom of a 15-metre well about six kilometres away from their camping site. They had each been shot in the head, the State Attorney General’s Office of Baja California said.
The three men had been camping and surfing together along the Baja coast in the municipality of Ensenada, about an hour and a half south of the U.S.-Mexico border, when they failed to show up at the Airbnb they had booked for the April 27-28 weekend.
On Thursday, Mexican officials announced they had found the men’s campsite and were investigating “other evidence” at the location. Three people were brought in for questioning.
During a Sunday news conference, María Elena Andrade Ramírez, the state’s chief prosecutor, revealed that the surfers’ tents were found burned to the ground and gun casings, blood stains and drag marks were present at the site, which led investigators to believe the victims had been attacked and their bodies moved.
After an extensive search, investigators found a boarded-up well about six kilometres away from the campsite in an “extremely” remote area. Inside were four bodies: the three tourists who had gone missing, as well as a fourth, older body.
The three men’s bodies had likely been in the well for five to seven days by the time they were found, according to NBC San Diego, citing a
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