Winnipeg woman seeks answers after husband killed during belated honeymoon at Mexican resort
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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.
Jesse Ropos, 36, died in the early morning hours of Jan. 13 after a 10-day vacation in Puerto Aventuras, a gated community located about 75 kilometres southwest of Cancun.
The father of three was killed just 12 hours before he was set to return home with his wife, Stacey Ropos.
"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.
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.
"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."
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.
"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.
"I just ran underneath that police tape and just ran to him and started screaming for him to get up."
CBC 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.
According to a translation of a document from the state attorney general's office, written in Spanish, that was obtained by CBC News, Jesse died as a result of choking from strangulation.
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.
A report from police in the document says officers were called to the hotel due to a fight involving two hotel guests.
Stacey watched remotely in Mexico Sunday as a court hearing for the two accused in her husband's death took place.
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