New details are emerging in the tragic shooting death of Giovanni Robinson, a young Canadian father who came to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, to golf at Whistling Straits with friends.
Authorities have named Luis E. Cruz Burgos, a DoorDash driver, as the suspect in the murder. According to Wisconsin court records, Cruz Burgos has now been charged with first-degree reckless homicide. His full name is given in court records as Luis Enrique Cruz Burgos. Court records say a warrant was initially issued for his arrest; however, he is now in custody, according to police.
"It was my brother in law. He’s a Canadian and was there golfing. He was only 32, just had his first baby in August and got a hole in one that day. This is a nightmare," Jess Robinson wrote on the Sheboygan Falls Police Department's comment thread on Facebook, of the victim, who was also known as Mike Robinson.
According to Fox 6 Milwaukee, and WISN-TV, a criminal complaint outlines the accusations against Cruz Burgos in great detail. Prosecutors allege that Robinson was out celebrating with friends because he hit a hole-in-one on the golf course.
Two of the other three people with Robinson were “highly intoxicated,” and they were all having trouble finding an Uber to go back to their hotel in Kohler.
One of those witnesses told police they discovered a DoorDash driver and communicated with him in Spanish, offering him money to take them back to their hotel, but he refused because he “wanted more money,” so they started to walk back to their hotel when Robinson was suddenly shot and said, “I’m dying," according to the complaint, as summarized by Fox 6.
Fox 6 reported that the complaint also alleges:
The men felt the shot came from the vehicle the suspect was in.
A witness told police the initial encounter with Cruz Burgos was “not hostile from either side” and was short.
A second witness said the ride negotiation was in a “regular conversation tone.”
Surveillance video from a bar showed the group left around midnight and walked up to the black SUV. Another video from a business said there was “yelling” before the group “appeared in the video” walking on Pine Street.
One man with the group allegedly said “(expletive) that tool” and they spoke about a “shake down and how he was not going to give him $40 for five minutes of work, Spanish or not.”
When police located Cruz Burgos, he allegedly told authorities he had been working for DoorDash for nine months and was making a delivery when he “encountered four ‘drunk’ men’ who were ‘attempting to stop cars.’”
He said there was no argument, but one man called him “stupid” and another flipped him off, Fox 6 alleged.
The suspect allegedly said he did not have a gun and didn’t shoot Robinson because he has a domestic incident court order from Florida in 2019, the television stations reported.
The Canadian men were acting like they were hitchhiking, he allegedly told police.