Missing Surfers Found in Mexico Their Cause of Death Revealed E! News

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00:00Authorities have shared the cause of death behind three missing surfers found in Mexico.

00:05The bodies of the three were found in a hard-to-reach well near Ensenada, Mexico last week, and

00:10now authorities have confirmed the cause of death for Australian brothers Jake and Callum

00:15Robinson and their American friend Jack Carter Rode.

00:19According to NBC News, authorities explained the trio were killed in an apparent carjacking,

00:24with the Ensenada medical examiner saying that the official causes of death were gunshot

00:28wounds to the head.

00:30The three were originally considered missing on April 27th after they failed to return

00:34to an Airbnb rental.

00:36Their bodies were discovered in a remote well that was 50 feet deep, along with a fourth

00:40body that had been there longer, in La Bocana, south of Ensenada, per NBC News.

00:45According to a statement by the state's Attorney General's office, family members were brought

00:49in to make the identifications in person.

00:52Prosecutors shared during a news conference on May 6th that they suspect the carjackers

00:57were trying to steal the wheels on the pickup truck used by the surfers.

01:01Authorities said they have three people in custody, one of whom was in possession of

01:04one of the victims' cell phones.

01:06Two of the suspects were held on methamphetamine-related allegations, while the third was the subject

01:11of a kidnapping warrant.

01:13Jake, Callum, and Jack were apparently in a makeshift encampment during a trip along

01:17the Baja Coast when they were attacked, with prosecutors saying they found tents, spent

01:21gun shells, and bloodstains.

01:23Jake and Callum's mother, Deborah Robinson, was posting actively about her sons after

01:28they were considered missing, and now she and husband Martin are mourning their loss.

01:32She said during a news conference via ABC News,

01:35"...our hearts are broken and the world has become a darker place for us.

01:39They were young men enjoying their passion of surfing together."

01:42E! News has reached out to the Baja California Attorney General's office but hasn't heard

01:46back.

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