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IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. –
The body of a missing teacher in North Carolina, missing during a hike in Mexico, was found, according to a Facebook page dedicated to Patrick Braxton-Andrew's research.
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"It is with a feeling of relief that we are able to confirm that Patrick's body has been found and that we will be able to bring him back home soon," the post said.
The Woodlawn School in Mooresville, where Braxton-Andrew taught, canceled classes Friday after learning of his mother's death.
The Facebook page announced Friday that Braxton-Andrew, a Spanish professor and a graduate of Davidson College, had died as a result of a criminal organization in Mexico on October 28th.
Since he was last seen on October 28 in Urique, a small village in the state of Chihuahua, Braxton-Andrew's family is in Mexico and is working with local and US authorities to locate him.
Chihuahua officials and Patrick Braxton-Andrew's family desperately searched for the missing backpack for weeks. The family thanked the Governor and the Attorney General of Chihuahua for their "unwavering commitment to locating Patrick".
Chihuahua Governor Javier Corral wrote on his official Facebook page that investigators thought that Braxton-Andrew had been killed by a narcotrafik operating in the area, José Noriel Portilo Gil, also called "El Chueco".
"Thanks to the progress of the investigation, I can say that there was a cowardly and brutal murder of a totally innocent person, a pure man whose the misfortune was to cross the path of this criminal, "wrote Corral.
Kerry Braxton-Andrew, Patrick Braxton-Andrew's brother, said that this 34-year-old man had been last seen by an employee of a hotel in Urique, an isolated town in the state of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico.
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In January, the Mexico Daily News reported that 31 people had died there as a result of organized criminal activity.
The state government said in a statement Monday that the researchers had checked the cabins in the vicinity of Urique village and descended into deep ravines in search of Braxton-Andrew.
Urique is an ancient mining village at the foot of one of the many canyons that make up the Copper Canyon National Park, Mexico.
According to the Washington Post, Braxton-Andrew spoke fluent Spanish and loved that language. He had traveled extensively in Central America and Mexico. He was originally scheduled to meet his brother in Mexico City on October 30, after spending a few days hiking in the Copper Canyon.
When he failed to show himself, his family began to retrace his steps, finally deciding that he had been last seen leaving his hotel in Urique on October 28th.
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