Removed from bar after fightĪ report from police in the document says officers were called to the hotel due to a fight involving two hotel guests. Two men identified as hotel staff members were arrested in connection with Ropos's death, according to the document, but no formal charges have been filed, Stacey said. "I just ran underneath that police tape and just ran to him and started screaming for him to get up."ĬBC News reached out to police in the state of Quintana Roo regarding Ropos's death, but they referred the inquiry to the Quintana Roo state attorney general's office, which couldn't immediately be reached for comment.Īccording to a translation of a document from the state attorney general's office, which was written in Spanish and obtained by CBC News, Jesse died as a result of choking from strangulation. "I could see the police tape and a woman came up to me and stopped me and said, 'I'm sorry but I need to tell you that your husband's dead,'" Stacey said. Stacey said she went to the hotel bar with Jesse earlier in the night. He stayed when she left to go back to their room, where she was later woken up by hotel staff asking her to come to the lobby. Jesse Ropos and Stacey Ropos were enjoying the last few hours of their long-awaited honeymoon when Jesse was killed at a bar at a resort in Mexico where the couple was staying. "It was essentially our honeymoon after getting married eight years ago," Stacey said, fighting through tears. "Losing him was hard but trying to tell our babies when I can't hold them and hug them and make them feel better - that was the worst." It was their first big trip together, she said in an earlier interview Tuesday morning before leaving Mexico. Her husband's body was being sent back to Canada on a different flight. "I went to go on this beautiful vacation with my husband and now I'm coming back with his body," Stacey told CBC News Tuesday night, shortly after arriving back in Winnipeg. The father of three was killed just 12 hours before he was set to return home with his wife, Stacey Ropos. 13 after a 10-day vacation in Puerto Aventuras, a gated community located about 75 kilometres southwest of Cancun. Jesse Ropos, 36, died in the early morning hours of Jan. State Department issued a travel alert this month warning travelers to “exercise increased caution,” especially after dark, at Mexico's Caribbean beach resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum, which have been plagued by drug gang violence in the past.A Winnipeg man on a long-awaited honeymoon with his wife at a resort in Mexico was killed last week after police were called to a fight at a hotel bar where the couple was staying, the man's wife told CBC News. The wounded man was taken to a hospital in Cancun for treatment, and his injury was judged to be not life-threatening. Prosecutors said the American was approached by several suspects near midnight Monday and they shot him in the leg. They said the shooting occurred in the low-key town of Puerto Morelos, just south of Cancun. tourist was shot in the leg by unidentified assailants at a resort town on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, prosecutors in the coastal state of Quintana Roo said Tuesday. Watch Video: How to safely visit cities during unrest, when to cancel your trip
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