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Missing California PhD student Gabriel Trujillo found dead in notorious cartel territory in Mexico
Nypost ^ | 06/30/2023 | Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 06/30/2023 5:29:26 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, has been killed in Mexico — where his bullet-riddled body was found in his SUV after his fiancée reported him missing on his trip to conduct field research about plants.

Gabriel Trujillo, 31, a botanist and fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology, was shot seven times June 19 in the northwest state of Sonora and his body was discovered three days later, his family said.

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TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: berkeley; california; cartel; crime; darwinaward; gabrieltrujillo; mexico; sonora; student; trujillo
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How awful.
1 posted on 06/30/2023 5:29:26 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Scott Adams might advise to just stay out of Mexico.


2 posted on 06/30/2023 5:33:53 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course, one has to wonder if he was there to collect plants or for some sort of transaction.


3 posted on 06/30/2023 5:35:55 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How awful.


4 posted on 06/30/2023 5:36:05 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: citizen

Peote and marijuana are plants


5 posted on 06/30/2023 5:42:46 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Might as well have wandered into the south side of Chicago on a Saturday night.


6 posted on 06/30/2023 5:42:58 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: citizen; All
His family had begged him not to go to Sonora, a drug-plagued area that recorded 518 homicides through May, but Trujillo believed the trip was vital for his research.

The US State Department urges Americans to “reconsider travel” to Sonora “due to crime and kidnapping.”

He didn’t listen so now his father has to bury a son. Him being alive was vital for his fiance.

7 posted on 06/30/2023 5:44:56 PM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: citizen

He probably wandered into a grow field. Not sure he’d be able to take plants back across the border. I haven’t gone to Mexico in decades because of the cartel violence. It’s a shame. It’s a beautiful country and was a vibrant culture. Unfortunately the bad has come with the good across our border for far too long. I said years ago we would’ve been better off invading Mexico over Iraq.


8 posted on 06/30/2023 5:48:53 PM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I told you not to go to Mexico.

For any reason

Didn’t I?


9 posted on 06/30/2023 5:53:33 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gee, I wonder who’s buying the drugs that finance the cartels.


10 posted on 06/30/2023 5:57:21 PM PDT by suthener ( )
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Sad that he did not heed those pleas. Tho, perhaps, as an AZ resident, he may have crossed over many times and this time ventured upon the wrong people or to the wrong place.


11 posted on 06/30/2023 6:06:58 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: citizen

Pretty much common sense. I can see why a 31 year old CA PHd student didn’t have any.


12 posted on 06/30/2023 6:22:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“The US State Department urges Americans to “reconsider travel” to Sonora “due to crime and kidnapping.”

I was actually alive when being a US Citizen actually meant something.

Weird.


13 posted on 06/30/2023 6:24:40 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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There’s a reason one shouldn’t go where the cartels are


14 posted on 06/30/2023 6:46:00 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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The US government does not give a rip about you and will not rescue you and it has been over 100 years since they did so.

I was alive and overseas when they told us that US citizens were considered either free floating bags of money or political points to be grabbed by any one who had the nerve to do so.

15 posted on 06/30/2023 6:58:29 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So, Gabriel Trujillo was not only stupid, but he was selfish.
Yes, yes, yes. His murder is sad.
But, this is just another way (the only way?) to get a Darwin Award.


16 posted on 06/30/2023 7:45:28 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He failed to heed the warnings.


17 posted on 06/30/2023 7:45:58 PM PDT by bgill
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To: citizen

Scott Adams might advise to just stay out of Mexico.

Would seem to be some most prudent advice.


18 posted on 06/30/2023 7:46:14 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sorry for a death for anyone like that....but I am somewhat suspicious of a guy going out alone to collect plants in a drug cartel.infested area....if he was a frequent visitor....he had to know.....the police investigators are still investigating...I suspect they are trying to come up enough “facts” to explain the murder..


19 posted on 06/30/2023 8:38:29 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He found out.


20 posted on 06/30/2023 8:56:37 PM PDT by Salvavida
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