Overview

• Police discovered the bodies of Zunilda Hoyos Méndez and her partner on June 19 in their Higuerón West apartment after a friend reported her missing
• The victims were 43-year-old Colombian bodybuilder Zunilda Hoyos Méndez and her 46-year-old American partner, Jarrod Gelling
• Preliminary findings indicate Zunilda died from blunt force trauma consistent with hammer blows while Jarrod’s wounds point to a self-inflicted knife suicide
• The couple, both professional bodybuilders, had just returned from a competition in Dubai and were in Fuengirola for Jarrod’s knee surgery
• The Ministerio de Igualdad has confirmed the case as gender-based violence, marking it as Spain’s 15th such homicide and Andalusia’s fifth this year