Originally from Ensenada, a small town in Baja California, this 36-year-old man arrested for the murder of two Australian brothers, Jake and Callum Robinson, and an American, Jack Carter already has a serious criminal record behind him, according to the information revealed by the federal prosecutor of this state of Mexico.
“I fucked them, the three gringos!” This is what Jesus Gerardo, aka “El Kekas” allegedly said to his girlfriend, just hours after shooting Jake and Callum Robinson, two Australian brothers, and an American, Jack Carter, three, in the head. surfers whose bodies were found by Mexican police in Baja California at the bottom of a well on May 3, several days after their disappearance.
Details on the progress of the investigation
The main suspect in this triple crime which outraged public opinion and upset the families of the victims appeared Thursday, May 9 before a Mexican judge, according to information published by the federal prosecutor of Baja California, who revealed numerous details about the progress of the investigation.
“On the night of April 27 to 28, the three foreigners were surprised by Jesus Gerardo and other people, who wanted to steal their vehicle, and when they reacted, they killed them” specifies the prosecutor. This white Chevrolet Colorado pickup, from 2016, was then used to transport the bodies to the well where they were thrown, before being set on fire.
“Look what I brought you”
“He told me: I killed them” said during the hearing Ari, his girlfriend, who was also incarcerated, but agreed to speak as a witness for the prosecution. “Look what I brought you”, he would have added, before showing him the four new tires stolen from the surfers’ Chevrolet, and which he had put back on his own vehicle. He also allegedly gave her a phone, which he had in fact stolen from one of his victims.
The investigation also showed that he had taken the computers and money of the three victims, undoubtedly to buy methamphetamine, a drug which was found at his home by Mexican police.
Always a gun on him
According to his partner, with whom he had a four-year-old child, he was regularly violent with her, and always moved around with a gun on him.
According to Mexican justice and various local media, this man was already known for domestic violence, drug trafficking, theft and death threats. He was incarcerated in the local prison until November, while the investigation could progress, because investigators are convinced that he did not act alone, and that other criminals accompanied him in the evening. where they attacked the camp of the three unfortunate surfers.
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