B.C. woman killed in Mexico, boyfriend detained in suspected homicide
Posted March 5, 2023 4:31 pm.
A Canadian man is being detained in Mexico for the suspected homicide of his 23-year-old girlfriend at a resort south of Cancun.
The woman has been identified by family members as Kiara Agnew from Dawson Creek, B.C.
Her family says on a GoFundMe page that Agnew went on what was supposed to be a “dream birthday vacation” to Mexico with her boyfriend, but that “turned into a nightmare” when relatives were notified of her death on Friday.
Agnew’s mother, Michele Levesque, later posted to Facebook that her daughter’s body will be returned to Dawson Creek.
SSP Solidaridad said in a statement in Spanish that police from the Secretariat of Public Security took a man into custody after “a lifeless woman was found with possible marks of violence in a hotel located in the Xcalacoco neighbourhood.”
Policías de la SSPyT de Solidaridad aseguraron a una persona de origen extranjero por el posible delito de feminicidio, tras ser encontrada una mujer sin vida con posibles marcas de violencia en un hotel ubicado en la colonia Xcalacoco. pic.twitter.com/CoJc9S3zwf
— Seguridad Ciudadana Solidaridad (@SSP_Solidaridad) March 3, 2023
Mexican prosecutors said the woman was found dead Friday at a hotel, but did not name the man or the hotel.
Prosecutors in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo confirmed the suspect is also a Canadian.
They said the death occurred in the Riviera Maya, the stretch of coast south of Cancun. Local media said it happened at a hotel in the resort town of Playa del Carmen.
Files from The Associated Press were used in this report
