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02/06 17:22 CST A man tied to the killing of Colombian soccer player Andrs
Escobar shot dead in Mexico
A man tied to the killing of Colombian soccer player Andrs Escobar shot dead
in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) --- A man allegedly tied to the killing of Colombian soccer
player Andrs Escobar days after he scored an own goal during the 1994 World
Cup was shot dead in Mexico, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Friday.
Petro wrote on X that Santiago Galln, an alleged Colombian drug trafficker who
was sentenced to prison in 2010 for financing paramilitary groups in the South
American nation, had been killed. He wrote that Galln had allegedly killed
Escobar, a killing that "destroyed the country's international image."
The killing took place in Medellin, Colombia, days after Colombia's national
soccer team, one of the favorites that year, lost in an upset to the United
States.
The state prosecutor's office from the state of Mexico, which surrounds Mexico
City on three sides, confirmed that a body believed to be Galln was found
Wednesday in Huixquilucan, outside the capital. It was undergoing forensic
examination to confirm the identity.
Escobar was shot several times outside a disco in Medellin on July 2, 1994, by
Humberto Muoz Castro, Galln's driver, after being harangued about the own
goal.
Muoz Castro, who had connections to a powerful Colombian cartel, was arrested
and confessed to the killing. He refused to implicate his bosses. Found guilty,
Munoz was initially handed a 43-year jail term. He served only 11 years.
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