Teacher, missing from Urique, killed

A North Carolina schoolteacher who disappeared last month while out for a walk in Mexico is dead, according to a post on the verified Facebook page of the Governor of Chihuahua.
Patrick Braxton-Andrew, 34, from Davidson, disappeared October 28 after leaving his hotel in Urique. Gov. Javier Corral Jurado, writing in Spanish, said that Braxton-Andrew crossed paths with a drug dealer from the Sinaloa cartel and was killed in a "cowardly and brutal murder."
A Facebook page set up to find Braxton-Andrew said that Chihuahua state authorities had confirmed the death and are searching for those responsible to bring them to justice.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/18/world/north-carolina-teacher-killed-mexico/index.html

You must have overlooked the active discussion of this, a couple of postings below yours:

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/forums/americas-mexico/mexico/missing-friend

At this point in time, my suggestion is not to take at face value anything state or local investigators say. We may never know what happened.

LW

That post is actually from weeks ago... I think that some TT users don't realize that not all people are monitoring every single old thread at all times.

Yes, the story sounds sketchy indeed, but there is no doubt it casts doubt upon the security situation in Urique at the moment. That said, armchair "Websleuths" with wild speculations are in no better position to implicate authorities or anyone else.

It definitely isn't a good look for the US Travel Advisory squad; it's been more than obvious over the last year that this is an area travelers should be avoiding, yet it doesn't even qualify for the top "warning" level, which includes places like Patzcuaro and Manzanillo in the same category as Syria. This is a great example of how these advisories give a false sense of security by not including actual dangerous areas where tourists have been attacked like this or Chiapas and only rating them as a middling "reconsider travel" or lower. This is a wake-up call for those who consider them to be the end-all-be-all on safety in the country.

That's horrible!! And sure, these are bad news to use for warning travelers not to visit Mexico.

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