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The State Prosecutor General announced the 3 surfers in Santo Tomas were killed for resisting an assault.
It also reported a fourth body, likely to have been there longer, was recovered from the same place, but may not be related to the other killings.
Authorities confirmed the finding of the 2 Australian brothers and the American citizen who have been lost since the weekend in Ensenada. They removed the bodies from a water well, more than 50-foot deep, next to the three foreigners a fourth body was located. The fourth body was identified as a ranch owner who was reported missing two weeks ago, officials said. He owned the property where the bodies were found.
And it also appears that Baja California’s state chief prosecutor, MarÃa Elena Andrade RamÃrez, is blaming the families for not reporting them missing sooner.
She said the chances of finding the men had diminished as a result of delays to the investigation.
“Unfortunately, a notice of their disappearance was only filed in the last few days, so very important hours were lost there,” she told a press conference in Mexico on Friday.
Ari Gisel GarcÃa Cota, 23, was found with drugs and a phone connected to one of the missing Australian surfer. She is one of three suspects arrested in Baja California in connection with this crime.
Her Tik-Tik account has been discovered and people have been leaving comments:
Antonio Otañez, president of the Baja California Surf Association said “Everyone is in shock. We can’t believe it.”
He announced the Baja California peninsula surfing community would hold a rally on Sunday, “to show solidarity with our Australian and American friends, and to demand security for the surfer community in the whole state”.
“Some friends told me they met [the missing surfers] here in the 38 and in San Miguel. They told me they were really great guys, friendly.”
Otañez said the area was not especially dangerous for surfers.
“You think Tijuana and you think cartel, mafia. But we who live here don’t see such risk. Of course, there’s crime. And you hear about deaths, but these are usually between the drug trafficking groups. But against civilians? Situations like this are very rare here. And still more with foreigners.”
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