Posted on 11/29/2018 5:25:41 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Two San Diego teens who took a day trip to Mexico to visit a friend last Friday were found dead in a Tijuana apartment in what is being investigated as a triple homicide.
Christopher Alexis Gomez, a 17yo football player at O’Farrell Charter HS, and Juan Suarez-Ojeda, a recent graduate of Ingenuity Charter School, set out to visit their friend, an 18yo Tijuana resident,...
Gomez and Suarez-Ojeda told family members that they planned to attend a barbecue in Ensenada, about 50 miles south of Tijuana, and would return to the U.S. on Friday night, ...
When the two failed to show up or contact relatives, Garcia says the family frantically called authorities and drove to Tijuana to search for them.
The bodies of Gomez, Suarez-Ojeda and their friend, were found Sunday morning after gunshots rang out at a housing complex.
Police discovered them shot dead execution-style, wearing only their underwear,... The teens had all been tortured prior to their deaths, a Tijuana detective allegedly told relatives of Gomez. The motive behind the brutal murders still remains unknown.
"Everyone is devastated," Garcia told reporters. "This just feels so unreal."
"They're monsters," she said of her cousin's killers while choking back tears. "Who does that to three young boys who have their whole lives ahead of them?"
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help both families cover funeral arrangements and any other unexpected expenses.
Garcia also set up a separate GoFundMe just to help her cousin’s family, who she said was struggling to even afford to bring Gomez's body back to San Diego.
"I know how this story sounds, like something that people hear on the news: You go to Tijuana and this happens," "But he was the most selfless, kindest boy ever … This shouldn’t have happened to him."
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Why would anyone let their child go to Mexico ???
The teens were shot around 5 a.m. Sunday at an apartment complex in south-central Tijuana, according to Tijuana media reports. When police arrived, they found the bodies of the three teens dressed in their underwear in front of an apartment door. Investigators believe they had been forced to kneel and then each one was shot in the head execution-style.
Your text still doesn’t explain the why. Why were they tortured and killed?
Biggest mistake they ever made. With the Spanish names, we’d have to assume they may have cousins there are have traveled occasionally to TJ as a family.
There are people on this forum that state they go down there all the time.
So from my name sounds like I belong in Sicily. They were American kids.
My first trip to Mexico was in the mid ‘70’5 and have been there about 14 times. About five years ago, I was picked up at the airport in Monterey in a bullet proof car while visiting a factory. I will not go back. Sad really, because it can be a wonderful place.
I used to go to TJ,
70’s and 80’s .
Fireworks,
Booze and knives.
Now, I know Better.
Often, kids will do whatever they want to do, despite parent's advice if given. Other times they will do it without the parent's knowledge. When I was young, my girlfriend and I would travel into Tijuana for fun and shopping, without telling our parents (we were teens). My oldest daughter, just after graduating high school went to Europe with a couple girlfriends and traveled all over Europe via trains, buses and hitchhiking for several months. My wife and I pleaded with her not to go, but her mind was made up. This was just after 9/11 happened. Thankfully, nothing bad happened. It made here more independent as she became an adult but scared the crap out of us as parents (something we did to our parents as well).
That’s for the Mexican police and US authorities to figure out. American tourists get robbed there all the time by the cops and others. These kids likely didn’t have much money.
In Tijuana, they randomly murder each other and murder for drugs. Life is cheap in TJ.
2,000+ homicides in the past 12 months. Chicago is much safer, so is Kabul.
Don’t let your kid hold his/her own passport. They aren’t going out of the country with out a passport. Problem solved.
More likely there was already a business relationship - that had gone sour.
I feel bad for them as well.
But it is not clear to me if they were USA citizens or not.
And yes, it makes a difference to me.
does anybody go to Tijuana for sight seeing?...especially teen boys?.....
>>No one deserves to be tortured without cause.<<
Not taking issue with your statement, but in your view what would be some legitimate causes to subject one to torture?
>>Biggest mistake they ever made.<<
I don’t think anyone would disagree with that observation!
“does anybody go to Tijuana for sight seeing?”
Did it years ago for about 15 minutes, then we made a quick U turn back across the border. My first and last trip there.
Both of our kids went to college in San Diego. We told them that if they ever went to Mexico and something happened, do not call us. There is nothing we can or will do to get you out. Nothing.
And they believed us.They never went to Mexico.
Profile much, George? They could be third or fourth generation native Americans for all we know.
For about 6 years I had to spend 1 week of every month in Guadalajara, on business. I never felt unsafe. Guadalajara was a nice town, I liked it and my Spanish was good enough to get around. It has been about 10 years now and I don’t think I would want to go now.
But you have to be pretty dumb to go to Mexico for any reason. That country is a chithole.
When my daughter was a senior in high school about 12 years ago, one of her friends had wanted to apply to a college in Mexico. Her parents had migrated to the US years before and owned two very successful Mexican restaurants here. They were very well to do. I remember the parents being adamantly against it, they told us no way would they allow her to set foot in the hell hole they had left and couldn’t understand why she would want to go there, especially when she could go anywhere she wanted in the states. She didn’t go to Mexico.
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