A family has paid tribute to a British tourist who has been shot dead while shopping in Mexico. Poet and artist Ben Corser, who has links to Bristol, had been in a supermarket to pick up groceries in Colima when he was killed on Tuesday, May 24.
The 37-year-old, from Cornwall, was sitting in the back of a car outside the shop on Camino Real Boulevard with two friends when all three were shot dead. Ben's parents, former head teacher Andrew Corser and Lorraine Downes, and his brother Tom Corser, said he was in "the wrong place at the wrong time".
His mum and dad, of St Just, Cornwall, and brother Tom, of Penzance, have issued a statement. They say Ben had been living there since January and "becoming part of the community", and that he was killed alongside his two friends.
