Alfredo Pacheco, a soccer player who played for the Salvadoran
national side before being banned from the sport for life for his involvement
in match fixing, was murdered on Sunday, the Salvadoran attorney general's
office Pacheco, 33, was with a group of friends chatting in a petrol
station when an unknown assailant shot at the group various times, authorities
said. Two other people were injured and were taken to a nearby hospital in the
city of Santa Ana, west of the capital San Salvador.
"The attorney general's office in Santa Ana processed the
crime scene of the murder of Alfredo Pacheco at 3.30 am in a petrol
station," it said.
Pacheco was a defender who played for the Salvadoran clubs Club
Deportivo FAS and Asociacion Deportiva Isidro Metapan. He also played for the
New York Red Bulls in the United States.
Pacheco
was the player with the most caps for the Salvadoran national team. He was
banned from the sport by the Salvadoran soccer federation in 2013 when it was
found he had been involved in match fixing.
El Salvador has seen its murder rate skyrocket this year, with homicides
up 55 percent compared with last year. So far this year, there have been 6,068
murders, according to police data.
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