Mexican government says murder ‘has been ruled out’ in death of Amherst student Andrew Dorogi
“The criminal investigation report confirms that the body did not [have] any signs of violence, physical aggression or defending wounds.”
Mexican authorities say the 21-year-old Amherst College student who was found dead in Mexico City while on spring break in March was not murdered, as his family recently said in a statement
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The Government of Mexico said in a statement, released by the country’s embassy in Washington, that Andrew Dorogi was found dead “on the train tracks of a metro station in Mexico City” on March 15.
“The criminal investigation report confirms that the body did not [have] any signs of violence, physical aggression or defending wounds,” the Mexican government said. “Therefore, a murder has been ruled out as cause of death. The investigation continues its course by the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office.”
Mexican authorities said in their statement that the investigation revealed the 21-year-old traveled from Los Cabos, Baja California, to the Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City in order to take his connecting flight to New York.
“However, he never took the flight,” the government said. “Instead, he exited the airport and asked for directions to the metro station, according to witnesses’ accounts and video footage.”
The comment on the death of the Amherst football player comes days after the Dorogi family made their first public comments on the Ohio native’s death. Through a spokeswoman, the family told The Boston Globe that Dorogi had been murdered.
Joseph Dorogi, 86, told the newspaper he was frustrated by the pace of the investigation into his grandson’s death.
“I don’t think the Mexican government is really doing that much,” he told Globe last week.
Officials at Amherst College, where 21-year-old was expected to graduate this month, said in April they were informed by Dorogi’s family that the student did not commit suicide.
“The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office has offered to convene a meeting between the family of the victim or their legal representative and the experts that have carried out the investigation in order to provide an explanation of the incident,” the embassy said in its statement. “In addition, they have offered to show the available videos to the family. The Government of Mexico will closely continue following the investigation of this regrettable case.”
