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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Scott Adams might advise to just stay out of Mexico.
Of course, one has to wonder if he was there to collect plants or for some sort of transaction.
How awful.
Peote and marijuana are plants
Might as well have wandered into the south side of Chicago on a Saturday night.
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.
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.
I told you not to go to Mexico.
For any reason
Didn’t I?
Gee, I wonder who’s buying the drugs that finance the cartels.
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.
Pretty much common sense. I can see why a 31 year old CA PHd student didn’t have any.
“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.
There’s a reason one shouldn’t go where the cartels are
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.
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.
He failed to heed the warnings.
Scott Adams might advise to just stay out of Mexico.
Would seem to be some most prudent advice.
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..
He found out.
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