31-year-old California graduate student Gabriel Trujillo was killed last week in Mexico while conducting field research, the University of California Berkeley confirmed to The Daily Beast. His father told the AP that his son was fatally shot seven times.
A 31-year-old California graduate student and botanist was killed last week in Mexico while conducting field research, the school confirmed to The Daily Beast.
A school spokesperson said that the campus received confirmation of Trujillo’s death last Friday and that “local police authorities are investigating” the “heartbreaking news.” Trujillo’s father said that his son’s voyage across the border wasn’t his first—and that he had spent the last four years looking for a shrub called the common buttonbush. In his student profile for his research group, Trujillo said his interests include “studying the forces that drive evolution in tropical plants and insects.”
The grad student went into Noglaes from Arizona on June 17. The next day, according to AP, he spoke to his fiancée, Rozanne Cruz-de Hoyos, as well as his father. Cruz-de Hoyos, who is also a Ph.D. fellow researching tree mortality, told the outlet that the couple dedicated their lives to conservation and “felt that Indigenous hands have taken care of these lands for time immemorial.”
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