RIP to a 33 year old Footballer Alfredo Pacheco shot dead by gunman outside petrol station

Alfredo Pacheco, a 33 year old footballer who is
also the most capped footballer for El Salvador
national football team was shot dead by a
gunman outside a petrol filling station in Santa
Ana yesterday Dec. 27th. Pacheco was a defender
who played for the Salvadorian clubs Club
Deportivo FAS, A D Isidro Metapán and the New
York Red Bulls in the US.
Alfredo Pacheco was with a group of friends
chatting in a petrol station on Sunday when an
unknown assailant opened fire on the group. Two
other people were injured and were taken to a
nearby hospital in the city of Santa Ana, north-
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 3.30am in a petrol station,”
the office said.
Alfredo although was banned in 2013 from
playing football by the Salvadorian Football
Association due to match fixing allegations, he's
El Salvador's most capped footballer playing 86
times for the South American nation.
The murder rate in El Salvador has rocketed this
year, with homicides up 55% on last year. So far
this year, there have been 6,068 murders,
according to Salvadorian police data.