Authorities share cause of death for three missing surfers in Mexico

Tragedy has struck the surfing community.

The bodies of three surfers were found last week in a hard-to-reach well near Ensenada, Mexico, and authorities have now confirmed the Australian brothers’ cause of death. Jacques And Callum Robinson and their American friend Jack Carter Rhoad.

Authorities said the three men were killed in a carjacking, according to NBC News, with the Ensenada medical examiner saying the official cause of death was gunshot wounds to the head.

The three men were initially considered missing on April 27 after failing to return to an Airbnb rental. Their bodies were discovered in an isolated 50-foot-deep well — along with a fourth body that had been there longer — in La Bocana, south of Ensenada, according to NBC News. According to a statement from the state attorney general’s office, family members were brought in to make the identification in person.

Prosecutors said at a May 6 news conference that they suspected the carjackers were trying to steal the wheels from the van used by the surfers.