Truro coroner concludes Ben Corser unlawfully killed as he sat in car outside supermarket in Colima in 2022
A British traveller and keen skateboarder shot dead alongside two friends in Mexico was “in the wrong place at the wrong time”, his inquest has heard.
Ben Marshall Corser, 36, from St Just in Cornwall, was killed while sitting in the back of a car outside a supermarket in Colima, in western Mexico.
Cornwall coroner’s court heard Corser was taken to hospital unconscious but pronounced dead on arrival.
His father, Andrew Corser, told the hearing in Truro that his son was healthy and had been enjoying a “very happy and sociable time” while travelling in 2022. He said Ben and the two friends he had been living with had gone to the supermarket to buy food when they were killed.
