A romantic getaway ended in tragedy for two young graduates as Maya Robinson and her boyfriend of four years, Mark Keffer, both aged 22 drowned in the Espiritu Santo River at the El Yunque National Rainforest on October 11.
The pair had just arrived at their Airbnb apartment in
San Juan, and at 8am on October 11, they headed off on the sightseeing
tour that they had booked.
Local media reports that later that afternoon, the
American tourists found themselves stranded by the floodwaters and could
not escape. Their guide, Pradip Álvarez Astacio, managed to survive and
reported them missing. Following a search, the bodies of Robinson and
Keffer were recovered from the river.
Robinson
was an only child in her family. Her mother, Duana Hamilton, said she
does not know what to do now that her daughter, who has been her best
friend for the last 22 years, is gone.
She said : 'It hurts that someone so good is gone, I just don't understand it.’
Robinson
and Keffer met and fell in love during their freshman year at
Georgetown, where she majored in math and computer science, and he in
psychology and art.
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