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San Diego resident Emily Horvath, who was in a relationship with Callum, shared a series of emotional tributes to the 33-year-old on social media.
“My heart is broken into a million pieces,” she said.
“I have no words at the moment.
“You are one of a kind. I will love you forever.”
Her words, photos and videos of the pair together were among the flood of tributes to Callum and his 30-year-old brother shared online.
Jena Aro said the world is an “evil place”.
“But I won’t let that stop me from spreading the goodness you bring to this world,” she wrote on Instagram.
Horvath described Arrow as the couple’s “permanent third wheel”, saying she loved the way Calum treated her best friends as his own.
“Truly one of the most beautiful and loving souls,” wrote another friend of Calum’s.
“The world lost one of its best, dumbest and most sincere souls this week,” another message said.
Callum lived in San Diego after playing professional lacrosse in the US.
Jake was visiting his brother before starting a new job at a hospital in Geelong.
The trio were said to have been killed after fighting off people trying to steal the tires of the vehicle they were traveling in.
Authorities say they were shot through the head execution-style.
Three abandoned tents were also found along with the remains of a campfire in the remote coastal area.
The Ute was found on a farm, burnt.
Three Mexicans, Jesus Gerardo Garrica Cota, also known as El Quecas, his partner Ari Gissel García Cota and his brother Cristian Alejandro García, have since been charged with the forced kidnapping.
Sources tell 9News it is believed the trio will be charged with murder in the coming days.
A photographer friend of Callum’s, Randy Dibble, said he almost joined the trio on the trip after recommending where to go and drawing a “map on a napkin”.
He said his “friend and neighbor” Callum bought a print of a photo and asked him where in Mexico to go with his brother.
“I told him about the Santo Tomas Valley and went camping at Oak Groves in Ahusco where my grandparents took me camping every year when I was a boy and I’ve taken my friends and family there over the decades,” he wrote on Instagram, having referred to an area near where the dead were found.
“Then I told him to go to La Bocana at the end of the valley where there is great fishing and there is a wave to surf.
“I drew him a little map on a napkin. He asked me if I wanted to go.
“At first I said yes, it sounds fun, but I turned it down when I realized I had to work.”
Dyble described his friend as “a really great guy and a champion lacrosse and surfer.”
Callum previously attended Stevenson University in Maryland, where the lacrosse team held a moment of silence for the man they nicknamed “The Big Koala.”
“Callum will be remembered for his infectious spirit and amazing personality,” the university said.
“With his beautiful long hair and charming smile, he truly embodied the nickname ‘the big koala’ – warm, friendly and always there to lend a helping hand.
“Although he may be gone, Callum’s legacy will live on in our hearts forever.”
A fundraiser has raised more than $280,000 for the brothers’ family.
Donations have been made by friends and family, as well as Jake’s patients.
“Such an unimaginable tragedy,” wrote one person.
“Hearts, not just here in Western Australia, are really broken,” said another.
Baja California Attorney General Maria Elena Andrade Ramirez met with the victims’ parents on Sunday and “reaffirmed the institution’s full commitment to continue investigating these unfortunate events until those responsible are fully prosecuted,” she said.
In recent years, the area has been plagued by drug cartel violence, though it rarely happens in tourist areas like Ensenada.
The latest suspected killings have sparked outrage in Ensenada’s surfing community, where about 500 people marched Sunday to call for justice and better security.
Although parts of Mexico are established tourist destinations, serious crime, including kidnapping and human trafficking, affects parts of the country, especially in border areas.
Mexico’s homicide rate is among the highest in the world, and more than 100,000 people remain unaccounted for in the country.
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