US, Australian surfers in Mexico killed by bandits trying to steal tires from truck, prosecutor

The American and Australian brothers killed last week on a surf trip to Baja, California, were targeted by bandits for the tires on their pickup truck, prosecutors said late Sunday.

The victims, whose bodies have been identified by family members are Jake, 30, and Callum Robinson, 33, and American Jack Carter Rhoad, 30. 

Their bodies were discovered last week in a remote well in which they were put after being shot in a confrontation over wht was initially thought to be a carjacking.

The victims were camping and surfing on a remote stretch of the Baja peninsula. They were last seen alive April 27 during a trip in the city of Ensenada, according to the New York Post. 

The prosecutor's office for Baja California, a state in Mexico along the Pacific Ocean, said killers target the surfers when they noticed their truck and tents.

“They approached, with the intention of stealing their vehicle and taking the tires and other parts to put them on the older-model pickup they were driving,” said chief state prosecutor Maria Elena Andrade Ramirez.

As of Monday morning, there had been no known arrests in the case.

Ramirez also said the killers burned the men’s tents, then dumped their bodies into the 50-foot-deep well, about four miles from the murder scene, she said.

A fourth body was also found in the well, amid reports the same three killers has used it before.