<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A PhD student at the University of California Berkeley was shot and </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-scholar-killed-mexico-7c1509d5639f9dcadef132a46c379b60"><span style="font-weight: 400;">killed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Mexico while on a research trip.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The body of Gabriel Trujillo, 31, was found in Sonora, Mexico on June 22nd after his fiance Roxanne Cruz-de Hoyos reported him missing. Trujillo’s father says that his son was shot seven times. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Evidently he was in the wrong place,” Anthony Trujillo </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-scholar-killed-mexico-7c1509d5639f9dcadef132a46c379b60"><span style="font-weight: 400;">stated</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as he prepared to fly back home from Mexico with his son’s remains. Trujillo drove through Arizona and across the southern border into Nogales on June 17th to study the common buttonbush, a flowering shrub. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trujillo kept in contact with his father and his fiance on the 18th but then stopped responding to messages and calls during the day of the 19th. His fiance flew down to the area after she lost contact and heard from his Airbnb hosts that Trujillo had left his belongings but had not returned. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sonora state prosecutor’s office explained that it is reviewing evidence in order to “establish the facts, conditions and causes of the death.” It did not, however, label the death a homicide or provide any other additional information about the nature of his tragic death.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sonora, which shares its border with Arizona, is frequently used by the cartels, and has several drug and human smuggling routes. The area has been racked with </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/90d478d46e1d45bda0d969e9b517828c"><span style="font-weight: 400;">violence</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with cartel gunmen killing three American women and their six children in 2019. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trujillo’s family begged him not to go to Sonora, citing concerns for his safety, the Associated Press </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-scholar-killed-mexico-7c1509d5639f9dcadef132a46c379b60"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Trujillo, however, thought that studying the common buttonbush, which grows in Mexico, the United States, and Canada, could bolster conservation and habitat restoration efforts.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Gabe was a passionate ecologist, field biologist, and advocate for diverse voices in science,” UC Berkeley&#8217;s Department of Integrative Biology stated in an email. “We all face a world that is less bright for this loss.”</span></p>

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