UC Berkeley scholar's research took him to Mexico and a violent death

The family of UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Gabriel Trujillo says he was killed in Mexico during a research trip.

On June 22, authorities discovered his body about 62 miles from the Airbnb. He was still inside his SUV, Cruz-de Hoyos said.

His family begged him not to go to such a dangerous place: Sonora recorded 518 homicides through May, according to federal government data. But Trujillo believed the trip was crucial to his research. He spent years studying it and collecting specimens, often alongside Cruz-de Hoyos — a postdoctoral fellow researching widespread tree mortality — in a big red van they bought together.

Cruz-de Hoyos had been undergoing fertility treatments for the last two years and this summer’s trip to Mexico was supposed to be Trujillo’s last before the couple began trying to get pregnant.

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