After making themselves known Homicide of a Canadian tourist in Puerto Escondidoone of the most important beach destinations in Oaxaca, the State Attorney General’s Office (FGEO) gave more details about the case on Wednesday.
And it is that in the afternoon of May 15, the lifeless body of Victor Masson27 years old, inside a rental vehicle and parked in the streets of the Neighborhood Arroyo Seco. Early reports indicated that he was shot in the back.
According to prosecutor José Bernardo Rodríguez Alamilla, the subject he was involved in a fight the night before find in a bar known as “The pavement”located on Avenida Alfonso Pérez Gasga, apparently due to the payment of an account
He even pointed out that that night, the Canadian she met two men and two womenand that work is underway to identify those involved in the confrontation.
“The day before the events, he (Víctor Masson) goes to a bar in a region of the coast, an area known as (El) Adoquín. There is a fight at night over a payment problem, he knows four people and there is a problem with the payment of the account”
“After that fight he made a few calls saying he had been assaulted and by dawn he was found dead. The main line of this case is what happened that night,” he said. -he adds.
Due to the above, Rodríguez Alamilla felt that the murder could not be revenge; however, he said the prosecutor’s office had not exhausted any investigative leads.
On Google Maps you can see that the bar “El Adoquín” is located 3.5 km (11 minute drive) south of where Masson was found dead.
Finally, he revealed that the young man had little time to have arrived in the region of the coastas well as his girlfriend and family, who are from the state of Morelos.
Masson arrived at the popular Mexican Pacific tourist destination with his girlfriend Eve Castillo, with whom he traveled the country. Before arriving in Puerto Escondido, the couple had been down south and in Mexico City, according to what the woman herself said Televisa News.
On Monday, after spending the day at the beach, Castillo said she went to dinner with relatives while Masson stayed to rest at the hotel where they were staying, but in the end, he decided to go out on his own.
In the early hours of the morning, Victor Masson sent his girlfriend several audio messages in which he said that He met “strange” people.
“I have no idea what’s going on. If I text you the word “danger”, find my location and call the police, okay?“, Masson is heard saying in one of the audios.
Also, he said he was with a group of people. “It’s like…I’m stuck with them.” I tried to leave and they said ‘no, no, stay’So it’s weird.”
These messages were the last thing Eva Castillo heard from her boyfriend. Not having heard from her, in the early hours of the morning, he went to report her disappearance to the authorities and They searched for him in nearby hospitals. A few hours later, they announced his death to him.
This is the second attack on foreign tourists recorded in the Oaxaca coast region in five days, the above after last Friday three young Argentinians were attacked with machetes by a subject in Chacahua Lagoons. As a result of the attack, one of them died on Monday, identified as Benjamin Gamond23 years old and rugby player.
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