Family Dies On Vacation In Mexico
The family of four were said to be drowned off the coast of Tulum. The bodies of the young couple and their children have not been discovered yet. Search and rescue officials have been searching for the days but to no avail.
On vacation with his family in Mexico, Marcus had the opportunity to spend a day on a boat exploring the ocean. The boat was owned by Bimbo, a wealthy local who did this for pleasure, not profit. Around lunchtime, Marcus found himself sitting at an outdoor bar eating a burger when someone tapped him on the back.
Due to poor safety standards and faulty equipment, the family is killed in a tragic tourist accident. A family from Ireland has died on vacation in Mexico. The Mexican authorities are still in search of the cause of their deaths.
Family Dies On Vacation In Mexico
Family Found Dead While on Vacation in Mexico
A scary Spring Break story.
A family of four from Iowa, who suffocated from toxic gas inhalation, has been found dead in their vacation condo located in the Tulum, Mexico area. Kevin and Amy Sharp with their two children Sterling and Adrianna arrived in Mexico on Wednesday, March 14. Amy texted her mother “We made it to our condo” told Renee Hoyt to the Creston News Advertiser.
The family was scheduled to come back to the U.S. on Wednesday, March 21. When their relatives did not hear from them, they reported the Sharps’ family missing to the Creston police around midnight, Thursday. Creston Police Chief Paul Ver Meer said the investigation determined that the family had not boarded the flight from Cancun, Mexico to the United States. Creston Police contacted the U.S. State Department along with officials in Mexico. Officials found the bodies in the condo during a welfare check.
The four bodies of Kevin, 41, Amy 38, 12-year-old son Sterling and 7-year-old daughter Adrianna, were found in advanced state of decomposition. Prosecutors from the Quintana Roo state said that the pathologists determined that the family had probably been dead for 36 to 48 hours before they were discovered on Friday. They also were not able to determine which substance they inhaled. The bodies of the children were found in the living room and the bodies of Kevin and Amy was located in the bedroom. Local authorities’ states that there were no signs of foul play or signs of violence in the crime scene and were able to rule out suicide.
Infinity pools overlook the stunning fairways of the adjacent resort golf course.
The serene setting belies the tragedy that unfolded here when an Iowa family of four lost their lives last month during what should have been a breezy vacation in an ocean retreat.
Authorities discovered Kevin and Amy Sharp and their children, Sterling, 12, and Adrianna, 7, dead inside a penthouse condominium March 23 at the Tao complex after asphyxiating from inhaling toxic gas.
A local prosecutor pinpointed a faulty water heater as the culprit of the gas leak. Mexican officials have said they suspect no foul play in the case.
Expatriates from the United States and Mexican natives alike are still trying to comprehend how such a tragic thing could have occurred in one of the continent’s most popular vacation regions.
“Its a very huge deal for all of us,” said Marcy Essy, an Iowan who lives on the beach just a kilometer from where the family died. “This is a tourist area. And the people down here are the most caring, sharing people. The staffs, the people that own businesses, this affects all of us a lot.”
Essy, who still has a residence in Medora, Iowa, said tourists in Mexico occasionally die in car wrecks along the busy Federal Highway 307. Some drown in the ocean or suffer heart attacks or other life-ending ailments while in the Riviera Maya.
“But to lose a whole family, that is not at all common down here,” Essy said. “I do not remember something like that ever happening in the 30-some years we’ve been here.”
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Essy said the deaths shouldn’t scare off potential visitors, who she says generally won’t find trouble unless they go looking for it.
And she noted that problems with carbon monoxide poisoning are nearly unheard of in an area where residents open windows and sliding glass doors to enjoy the breezy, warm weather.
“This didn’t happen because we’re in Mexico,” she said. “It could have happened anywhere.”