A tourist from Canada was murdered shot in the afternoon of this May 15 at hidden portone of the most important seaside destinations on the coast of Oaxaca.
The victim was identified as Victor Masson27 years old, who received a shot in the back.
According to the first information, his body was found inside your vehiclewhich was parked in the streets of the Arroyo Seco district.
When neighbors noticed their fort, they alerted the emergency services, so Red Cross and Civil Protection paramedics San Pedro Mixtepec They arrived on the scene to provide first aid, but they could not do anything more to save his life, since he had already presented himself without vital signs.
For their part, members of the Municipal Police and the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Oaxaca (FGEO) arrived at the said colony to begin the corresponding investigation. Until There is no further information about the alleged attackers, as well as the cause of the homicide.
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.
the body of Benjamin Gamond entered the operating theater on Tuesday to donate his organsas his relatives wished, who told how he was fired to the applause of the medical staff of the Mexico City General Hospital.
“Thank you Benja for being what you were, we will all learn from you”writes one of his relatives.
In interview for Millennium TV, Jesuhandy Conde Gomez, mayor of Villa de Tututepec, said his family wanted his organs donated and the rest of his body sent to Argentina.
“We have been in contact with his brother a lot, in all the support for the transfer to his country of origin and they have also decided to donate organs, his brother even tells me and that too something that makes us too very sad, to say that his heart remains in Mexico and remains on the shores of Oaxaca”
During the brutal attack on him and his friends in Lagunas de Chacahua, he identified himself as the attacker irvin cross, 21 years old, from the municipality of Ometepec, in the state of Warrior, he is therefore already detained.
At first the reason for the attack was not known, but on May 16 the mayor confirmed that the man who attacked the aliens suffers from delusions of persecution and assaulted the tourist after “ingesting toxic substances”.
“He is a person who does not belong to the community, the municipality or the state. We regret these events that we had in the lagoon. The young man is from Ometepec, Guerrero, he had arrived one day looking for work”
The other two people attacked: santiago lastra 22 years old and Macarena Elia Gonzalez On the 29th they were quickly treated on the coast of the place by paramedics of the Municipal Civil Protection and later they were transferred to the Ángel del Mar Hospital in Puerto Escondido, where their states They have been classified as out of danger.although they suffered cuts to their hands and backs.
“Thanks to the coordination and efforts made by the consulate and the embassy with the Mexican Ministry of Health, the Mexican government has organized a medical plane to carry out the transfer between Puerto Escondido and the General Hospital of Mexico City”, a- he said for his part the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement after the attack.
The rugby organization to which Benjamin belonged reported the death and outsourced its support to the victim’s family.
“It is with deep sadness that we inform you that our beloved Benja Gamond passed away a few minutes ago. We embrace and accompany his mother, his brothers and all his family, friends and the entire black and white community. at this very sad moment,” read a statement shared by the club’s board of directors on their social media.
“Devoted organizer. Incurable thinker. Explorer. Tv junkie. Travel buff. Troublemaker.”