US, Australian surfers were likely executed in vicious carjacking in Mexico: report

The American surfers and Australian brothers who were recovered dormant connected a surfing picnic successful Mexico were apt killed erstwhile they refused to manus complete their car to a trio of carjackers, according to a report.

The bodies of Jack Carter Rhoad, 30, and brothers Callum, 33, and Jake Robinson, 30, were discovered alongside their burnt achromatic pick-up motortruck astir a week aft they vanished from nan Baja California providence.

Authorities theorized that the idyllic travel turned tragic erstwhile nan section bandits approached nan men while they were astatine their formation campy astatine a celebrated surf spot known arsenic La Bocana.

“When they tried to get nan vehicle, nan victims opposed nan robbery, nan robbers were equipped pinch a firearm and apparently changeable nan victims,” Baja California’s main charismatic María Elena Andrade Ramírez told Australia’s 7News.

Disturbingly, nan killers didn’t moreover return nan car they apt murdered nan trio for — alternatively opting to group it connected occurrence astatine nan camp.

Police person not confirmed really nan men died, but noted that ammunition casings were recovered astatine nan campsite.

Three antheral bodies were recovered astatine nan bottommost of a good astatine a adjacent ranch and nan betterment took respective hours for firefighters to execute.

Mexican officials person not officially confirmed that 3 of nan bodies are Georgia resident Rhoad and nan Robinson brothers, but said location was a “high grade of probability” they were executed.

Multiple sources confirmed their identities to Reuters this week, however.

The 4th assemblage was identified arsenic nan spot proprietor who was reported missing 2 weeks ago, officials said.

Police later arrested Jesús Gerardo Garcia Cota, othername El Kekas, his partner Ari Gisel García Cota, and Jesus’ relative Cristian Alejandro Garcia successful relationship to nan men’s disappearance, but haven’t been charged pinch murder.

All had methamphetamine and different forbidden narcotics connected them astatine nan clip of their arrest, while Ari Gisel Garcia Cota, 23, was carrying 1 of nan surfer’s phones erstwhile she was arrested, according to section reports.

The Robinsons and Rhoad were past seen April 27 enjoying nan tropical ambiance of nan coast, but they weren’t formally reported missing for respective days erstwhile they grounded to look to an Airbnb they had rented further south.

In nan hours earlier they vanished, Callum shared a bid of societal media posts of what looked for illustration an exhilarating picnic on nan Pacific Coast.

The men were seen donning wetsuits, drinking beers and enjoying section nutrient astatine Rosarito Beach, wherever they were surfing and camping earlier moving different 50 miles southbound to nan larboard metropolis of Ensenada.

One snapshot shows nan achromatic pick-up motortruck that sources judge is nan aforesaid 1 recovered burned astatine nan abandoned camp.

Stevenson University successful Baltimore issued a statement mourning nan decease of Callum Robinson, who graduated successful 2015 and was a prima lacrosse subordinate astatine nan schoolhouse and past played for nan Premier Lacrosse League.

Baja California is 1 of Mexico’s astir convulsive states, though tourer areas for illustration Ensenada are considered safer.