A Massachusetts woman is being mourned after she fell to her death from a Mexican Airbnb balcony. Authorities arrested her boyfriend before declaring the death accidental.
Leah “Lee” Pearse, a 20-year-old nursing assistant from Newburyport, Massachusetts, who was studying to be a nurse, slipped and fell from a third-story balcony while trying to get into her Airbnb in Cancun. The keys were locked inside after she and her boyfriend returned from a day at the beach, NBC 10 Boston reported.
According to his obituary, Pearse died instantly after falling from the balcony.
Pearse’s boyfriend, Augustine Aufderheide, 21, told authorities that he and Pearse argued before she tried to climb onto the third-floor balcony, the Southern Maryland News Net reported this week.
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Leah Pearse died after falling from a balcony in an Airbnb in Cancun.
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Fox News Digital confirmed that Aufderheide was initially arrested as part of the investigation, but various reports say that he was later released and cleared by Mexican authorities.
“For the past two years, she was the happiest we’ve ever seen her, living her independent college life in Boston, hanging out with her fabulous group of Simmons friends, and falling deeply in love with her amazing and ever-loving boyfriend Bobby (aka Gus or Augustin),” says the obituary.
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Huachinango street in Cancun, Mexico
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Massachusetts General Hospital, where Pearse worked, provided a statement to Boston.com, calling her a “vibrant” part of the hospital’s transplant unit.
“Her positive energy, creativity and thoughtfulness won the hearts of MGH patients and staff,” the statement read. “Our community will come together in the coming days to honor Leah’s memory.”
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“She was an exceptional person who ran the gamut of human emotion with such depth and compassion for others that her presence was brilliant and brilliant to all who met her,” her obituary reads.
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The accidental death comes months after three Americans died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning while staying at an Airbnb place in Mexico City.
Airbnb did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Fox News’ David Unsworth contributed to this report
