The California lawyer who was killed in Mexico while on a trip with his wife to celebrate their first wedding anniversary died as a result of an “unfortunate accident,” officials ruled — despite claims of criminality by his family.
Orange County assistant public defender Elliot Blair, 33, died Saturday in Rosarito Beach, on the Baja Peninsula just south of the northern border with the US at Tijuana, according to county Public Defender Martin Schwarz.
His family and colleagues have claimed on a GoFundMe page that the young attorney “was the victim of a brutal crime.”
However, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office ruled after an autopsy that Blair’s death appeared to be the “result of an unfortunate accident from a fall by the now deceased from a third-story floor,” the Orange County Register reported.
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