TIJUANA, May 10 — A hearse carrying the bodies of two Australian surfers murdered in Mexico headed for the US border yesterday to deliver the remains to their family, a funeral worker said.
The vehicle left a funeral home in the border city of Tijuana with the bodies of brothers Jake and Callum Robinson en route to a border crossing, the driver told journalists.
The body of their American friend Jack Carter Rhoad, who was also murdered, was in the care of another funeral company in Tijuana.
The procedure to cross the border could take several hours, so it was unclear what time the bodies would arrive in San Diego, where the Australian brothers’ parents Debra and Martin Robinson were waiting.
The friends had been camping in a remote beachside area when they were killed in what investigators believe was an attempt to steal their pickup truck.
Their bodies were found in a cliff-top shaft with bullet wounds to the head.
On Wednesday, a Mexican court ordered the prosecution of the main suspect in the triple murder, Jesus Gerardo “N” — alias “El Kekas.”
The prosecution has said it is gathering evidence to charge two other suspects, who remain in detention for alleged possession of methamphetamine. — AFP
