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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.
Gabriel Trujillo, 31, was a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the University of California Berkeley. His father told the Associated Press that he went missing earlier this month while collecting plant samples in Sonora, Mexico with his body being discovered on June 22, days after his fiancée reported him missing. Anthony Trujillo added that his son was fatally shot seven times and was found in an SUV.
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.”