The family of a 29-year-old man who died while on vacation in Mexico with friends last fall is seeking answers.
Maurice Colburt died on Sept. 2 in Rosarito, Mexico, after having a drink from his cocktail.
Colburt was with his friends at the popular tourist spot Papas & Beer having drinks when he suddenly collapsed at around 11 p.m, according to Fox 11 News.
“They were standing at the bar, and they were having a conversation with these young ladies and the people at the bar,” said his mother, Evangela Thomas. “And he took a sip out of a drink and just collapsed.”
Colburt’s friends reportedly saw him collapse inside the bar area of the eatery and tried to help him up, but he was unresponsive. His friends screamed for help from the staff but, according to his mother, the staff did not help Colburt nor did they call for medical assistance. Instead, the staff removed him from the premises and put him in the alley next to the restaurant.
Eventually, the paramedics were called, and when they arrived, they pronounced the 29-year-old from Long Beach, California, dead. According to a GoFundMe page set up for the family, after Colburt was put outside in the alley, the paramedics made no attempt to resuscitate him.
“Shortly after this terrible act took place, paramedics arrived at the scene. The paramedics pronounced him dead without any attempts to resuscitate him. No police investigation took place that night.”
Thomas also noted that Mexican authorities and the U.S. Embassy have provided her with no answers regarding the death of her son except that he allegedly died of a heart attack. She added that the morgue charged her extra fees to return her son’s body to the United States, and the family has had to investigate his death on their own.
The family also had trouble locating Colburt’s body after the ambulance took him away from the bar. They used Colburt’s phone’s tracker to locate him at the morgue….
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