Concord Native Dies In Flash Flood In Puerto Rico

CONCORD, MA — A Concord woman on a vacation with her boyfriend in Puerto Rico was killed when a flash flood swept through their guided tour. Maya Robinson was just 22 when she and her boyfriend Mark Keffer, died earlier this month.

Robinson and Keffer were recent graduates from Georgetown University and were in Puerto Rico celebrating their four year anniversary of dating, according to the Boston Globe. The couple was part of a guided tour through at the Espíritu Santo river in the El Yunque National Forest when a flash flood hit.

Robinson's mother told the Globe she was goal-oriented and hard-working. She had just moved to New York City three months earlier, taking a job as a corporate portfolio analyst. Robinson grew up in Concord and attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire before heading to Georgetown in 2015.

Keffer was from Houston and met Robinson just a few weeks into their freshman year at Georgetown. According to Keffer's obituary, the couple did almost everything together, from eating and watching movies to studying and singing. They even moved to New York together, Keffer getting an apartment in Brooklyn and Robinson an apartment in Manhattan, according to his obituary.

The pair were visiting the island fro a long weekend and Robinson's mother told the Globe they were caught in the flash flood "almost as soon as they go there." They died on Oct. 11.

A memorial service will be held for Robinson in Detroit, Mich., on Sunday, and another memorial at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire on Nov. 9.