Lizzette Zambrano and Jorge Guillen (GoFundMe) and the Sonoran Sea Resort (YouTube/TheTastyTraveler)
A woman in Texas has filed a lawsuit against the owners and operators of a resort in Mexico, claiming her husband was fatally electrocuted due to faulty wiring in one of their hot tubs.
Lizzette Zambrano — who was also critically injured in the hot tub incident — filed the complaint in El Paso County, Texas, on Friday. She is seeking more than $1 million in the wrongful death of 43-year-old Jorge Guillen.
The incident took place while Zambrano and Guillen were vacationing at the Sonoran Sea Resort in Puerto Penasco, which is about 60 miles south of the Mexico-Arizona border on the Sea of Cortez.
According to the complaint, as the sun was setting on Tuesday, June 11. Guillen put his foot into a hot tub on the resort premise and was immediately “exposed to an electrical current under the water.” The shock f forced him to “keel over” and he was quickly taken beneath the surface of the water.
Zambrano watched her husband collapse and ran over to try and get him out of the hot tub. However, the moment she touched the water, she too was exposed to the electrical current and fell into the hot tub, the complaint alleges.
The suit states that even after the couple were both submerged in the water, the electrical current continued, hindering the ability of bystanders to provide assistance.
