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Mexican authorities investigating the case of an American legal professional who was discovered useless at a resort resort earlier this month decided there was no foul play in his dying, in response to an official assertion launched Thursday.
Elliot Blair, 33, died from extreme head trauma, struggling accidents in keeping with “a fall from a peak, ruling out traces of violence within the physique of the lawyer produced by a firearm or sharp instrument,” in response to the legal professional normal’s workplace within the Mexican state of Baja California.
The findings are based mostly on outcomes of an post-mortem carried out by the Judiciary Forensic Medical Service, the workplace of Lawyer Common Ricardo Iván Carpio Sánchez stated within the written assertion.
Beforehand, the legal professional normal’s workplace stated Blair’s dying gave the impression to be the “results of an unlucky accident from a fall by the now deceased from a third-story ground,” in response to its assertion to the Orange County Register.
Earlier this week, Blair’s household indicated the legal professional was a sufferer of a brutal crime.
“The household, which has intensive authorized coaching in prison regulation, wholeheartedly believes based mostly on their preliminary investigation, that Elliot was the sufferer of a brutal crime,” in response to a household assertion supplied by their legal professional, David Scarsone.
CNN reached out to the Blair household’s legal professional for extra info.
Blair – who served as a deputy public defender in Orange County, California – was celebrating his first marriage ceremony anniversary along with his spouse, Kim, in Mexico on the Las Rocas Resort in Rosarito Seaside, about 45 miles south of San Diego.
He was discovered useless final Saturday on the property close to the realm of the steps that result in the car parking zone, Mexican authorities stated.
“Elliot was recognized for a smile on his face and a intelligent thoughts,” a GoFundMe created in Blair’s honor reads. “There should not sufficient phrases to specific the extent of affection he had for Kim. Kim was his life. They simply began constructing a life collectively of their first 12 months of marriage.”
The fundraiser – which has exceed its objective of $100,000 – was set as much as assist Blair’s household return his physique to the US.
In keeping with the legal professional normal’s workplace in Baja California, Blair’s physique had “indicators of alcohol.” Nonetheless, the household has disputed that notion.
“Elliot was not intoxicated on the time of this incident,” the household stated.
The household additionally stated they advised a coroner’s liaison they’ll rent a personal agency to conduct an impartial investigation that features toxicology. The liaison had advised them a toxicology report had not been accomplished, they stated.
Blair’s household has additionally refused to cremate his physique, underscoring {that a} funeral house has relayed to them that authorities have advisable that course of.
One other key element the household has disputed is the situation of the dying, saying Blair died outdoors the room’s entrance door in an open-air walkway, in response to the household assertion.
Blair and his spouse has stayed at that resort a number of instances previously 5 years, in response to the GoFundMe web page.
