On the morning of this Friday, October 4, the death of Marlon Perez, a Colombian cyclist, was confirmed. who was approached by criminals in Carmen de Viboral and received a sharp weapon wound that ended his life.
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There are several cases of Colombian athletes whose lives have been extinguished due to violence in the country. In February 2020, the death of Juan Diego González Alzate, a former Once Caldas player, whose body was found in bags along with the remains of another 19-year-old young man, in the Alvarado village, in the municipality of Copacabana.
Regarding this case, the authorities said that it would be a settling of accounts between one of the criminal gangs that has influence in that municipality.
In September 2017, the death of Jair Abonía, who was part of Millonarios, Cúcuta Deportivo and Once Caldas. The soccer player was murdered on a soccer field, in Jamundí, in the south of Valle del Cauca. A month after the events, the Cali Police captured nine men who made up the ‘Los Casqueros’ gang, which was dedicated to contract killings and extortion.
In 2014, soccer player Ferley Reyes Rivas, a Unión Magdalena player, was shot to death when he was in a hair salon in Gaira, Magdalena. His teammate Luis Enrique Díaz Asprilla was also injured in the attack.
Édison Chará Lucumí died in 2011 after being shot and wounded in a confusing altercation in the town of Puerto Tejada, Cauca. According to the authorities’ version, a fight broke out when Chará and other people were playing cards, a situation in which one of those present shot the soccer player.
In 2009, Edwin Martínez had planned to travel from Planeta Rica to Tunja to join Boyacá Chicó. Before his trip, he was murdered with a firearm by men traveling on motorcycles.
Martin ‘Gallo’ Zapata He was a player for Deportivo Cali, Once Caldas and Atlético Nacional, he was murdered in 2006, allegedly due to passionate matters in the Barranquilla Urbanization, in the northeast of Cali. The athlete was shot at by a man.
Lucio España was murdered in June 2005, in Jamundí, Valle del Cauca, when he was intercepted by criminals who were waiting for him near a bus stop. The incident was treated as an attempted robbery.
Juan Guillermo Villa lost his life at dawn on Friday, January 17, 2000. According to information at the time, Villa was driving in his private car through the exclusive sector of El Poblado, in Medellín. The authorities indicated that the Antioquian received 14 gunshot wounds.
In 1995, Arley Antonio Rodríguez Bedoya died after being shot outside a medical center in a Medellín neighborhood. His friend Álvaro Diego Pérez Santamaría, who was also at the scene, died with him.
Andrés Escobar was murdered in July 1994. The Colombian and Atlético Nacional international footballer was murdered ten days after the match in which he scored an own goal in the 1994 World Cup, in the United States, against the national team. host, after which Colombia was eliminated.
Omar ‘Torito’ Cañas was murdered in February 1993. ‘La Fiera’, his other nickname, was found dead along with three other people, one of them turning out to be the brother of a hitman leader killed hours before in the municipality of Bello. , Antioch.
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