Ontario teen's body has additional injuries: family

The uncle of a Canadian teen who died in Mexico said the 19-year-old's bodyhad moreinjuries when it arrived home Saturday than it did when relatives saw him in Acapulco.

"When I left Adamo's body, there were no secondary injuries whatsoever to his body— only trauma to the head," Sandro Belliotold reporters outside the family's Woodbridge Ont. home. "The coroner is now saying that there is second and third damages to his body."

Ontario's chief coroner, Dr. Barry McLellan, presented preliminary findings to relatives of 19-year-old Adam DePrisco on Saturday and said they don't want the results made public just yet.

But his uncle saysthey indicate there was an accident involving a vehicle, even though he didn't see injuries on his nephewthat would support that view.

After the first autopsy in Mexico, officials there declared the young man was the victim of a hit-and-run driver. But his travel companion, Marco Calabro, has said he believes his friend was beaten to death after dancing with a local woman at an Acapulco nightclub.

Calabro said the injuries to his friend's face and head were so severe that he was almost unrecognizable.

Bellio, who went to Acapulco this week, said while the Toronto autopsy indicates his nephew was killed in a car accident, he's not convinced.

"It sounds like a car accident, but the thing is, those injuries weren't there. I fully checked myself, for bruising, anything to the knee," he said."I checked Adamino's body and the body was clean."

The family expects the coroner to continue with further testing.

"The autopsy is not final," said Bellio, adding he isn't disputing the claims of the Ontario coroner. "They've done … testing on him and it's going to take a couple of weeks to deal with that."

Microscopic testing of tissue is expected to continue and could reveal more details about DePrisco's death, including how and when he was hit.

Meanwhile,Carm DePrisco, Adam's mother, lashed out at the government on Sunday, accusingOttawa of doing nothing to help resolve the case.

"I hate being a Canadian becauseI haven't seen nobody, nobodyfrom the government doing anything at all.They don't care."

Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKaysaid Sunday that he hopes to speak with Mexican authorities Monday about the case.

Other case remains unsolved

DePrisco's death comes nearly a year after Dominic and Nancy Ianiero of Woodbridge — the same community north of Toronto where the DePrisco family lives — were found slain in their hotel room at a resort near Cancun.

Critics have accused Mexican authorities — who quickly identified a pair of resort guests from Thunder Bay, Ont., as prime suspects — of botching the investigation and trying to cover up the truth.

The Ianiero case remains unsolved.

Yet those murders continue to haunt Canadians Cheryl Everall and Kimberley Kim, who took a vacation in Cancun last year at the same resort where the Ianieros were murdered.

They returnedhome to Thunder Bayonly to find out that Mexican officials were calling them suspects.

Kim said she and her friend continue to collect signatures in an online petition to warn Canadians that it's "unsafe" to go to a country "where you're guilty until proven innocent."

Twenty-eight Canadians have been killed in Mexico since 1994, a year before the peso devaluation that sparked a sharp rise in street crime. Thirteen of those deaths were in the past five years.

"Robbery and theft— the principal crimes faced by foreign visitors— are a bigger problem in large cities," according to the Canadian government's official travel advisory on Mexico.