Arizona State Student Dies After Falling Over 20-Foot Wall On Cabo San Lucas Spring Break Trip
A freshman at Arizona State University died Sunday after falling more than 20 feet over a short hotel wall while on Spring Break in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Aiden Nevarez, 18, had accidentally fallen while at the Hotel Riu Santa Fe, his friends told KPNX, an NBC affiliate in Phoenix. One friend of Nevarez said the wall was in front of palm trees and was about knee-high.
The cause of death has been declared as an accidental fall. It is unknown if Nevarez was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the incident.
Nevarez was a business major at ASU, in Tempe, Arizona. His friends described him as a person who was very “loved” and “genuine.”
“Never in a million years did anyone who knew us or knew Aiden expect us to be sitting here right now," Jack Fitzgerald, Nevarez's friend and roommate, told KPNX. “He was the most genuine kid that I knew. The biggest smile. He was so loved. Everybody loved Aiden."
A GoFundMe page to help get Nevarez’s body back to Arizona from Mexico raised over its $80,000 goal in just over 24 hours.
“The day before me and Aiden went to Cabo, he pulled me aside and said — I could almost quote it word for word — but he says, 'Jack, we have the best lives ever. I couldn't imagine my life a different way,” Fitzgerald said about Nevarez.
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