He was shot dead on Saturday night in a restaurant in the municipality of El Carmen, north of Manabà in Ecuador; We expand
Santiago RodrÃguezpresident of El Carmen University League, a team in the second category of Ecuadorhe was shot dead on Saturday night in a restaurant in the municipality of El Carmen, located in the north of the coastal province of ManabÃ, west of the country.
The sports leader went to dinner at the scene with some players of the team after a game, when heavily armed men entered the establishment and began to shoot their lawyers and their companions, according to local media.
As a result of the attack, one of the members of his security team also died and at least three other people would have been injured.
Several police units came to the site to collect indications and start with the investigations that allow clarifying the reasons for the attack and finding those responsible.
The Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) regretted “with great regret” the leader of the leader in a message posted this Sunday in his official channels.
“We send our most felt condolences to your family, clubmates, friends and the entire sports community of El Carmen. Paz in its grave,” the institution wrote.
RodrÃguez, 39, was a well -known lawyer in the area and on social networks like Tiktok reached a million followers. In his last video, the man invited people to go to the game that took place before the attack.
Manabà is one of the provinces that is under the state of exception recently renewed by President Daniel Noboa, due to the increase in violence, within the framework of the “internal armed conflict” declared by the president in 2024 to combat organized crime bands.
Police attribute to these criminal groups the escalation of violence that has led the country to appear at the head of Latin America in homicide index, a situation that has become sharpened in this 2025, since Ecuador counts an average of an hourly murder in the first months of the year.
