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The 32-year-old man who is believed to be from Liverpool was gunned down at around 8.15pm on Monday after leaving a football match The Calahonda area of the Costa del Sol A man shot dead on the Costa del Sol by a gunman who had waited for their victim to finish playing football was executed to "settle scores” in a gangland hit, it has been reported. The 32-year-old man who is believed to be from Liverpool was gunned down at around 8.
15pm on Monday after leaving a football match being played in a sports complex located in the Calahonda area. The Guardia Civil has seized two handguns from the gutted remains of a dark-coloured Seat Cupra with foreign number plates that was discovered in flames shortly after the shooting According to local news outlet La Opinion de Malaga, the burning vehicle was found just metres away from a shopping centre located close to the murder scene. Local media site SUR is reporting that the victim, a young man in his early thirties, was approached after leaving a football match.
Several people alerted 112 Andalucía that they had heard several shots at around 8.15pm. “Only a few minutes later, while Guardia Civil patrols were attending to the shooting, the alarms went off again due to a vehicle fire, specifically a Seat Cupra with foreign number plates, which was on fire in the municipality, a short distance from the crime scene,” SUR reports.
As investigators analyse the weapons, Pedro Fernández, the Government delegate in Andalusia, said police are trying to identify a culprit who had his face covered. “We are gathering the corresponding testimonies from people who may have seen something,” he said. “We are also working on inspecting the surrounding cameras to see if they can provide any identification regarding the person who fired these shots.
” Investigators have also not ruled out the possibility that the man was murdered in a “gangland hit” by the gunman who had waited for the victim to finish playing football before the attack. As we have reported, the victim was already dead by the time police and paramedics reached the scene. Locals told cops they had heard between eight and 10 shots being fired.
The incident has been described as a gunfight. Police put the area on lockdown after the shooting. Last week a 34-year-old man was rushed to the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella after being shot outside a nightclub at around 4.
30am on Good Friday. Witnesses told how the suspect fled the scene in a getaway vehicle. The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
No arrests are yet believed to have taken place. Last Thursday, a man was shot in the leg following a confrontation between families in Portada Alta. Five people were arrested with four later released and one remanded in custody.
Several other shootings have been recorded on the Costa del Sol in the past month. In one incident a man fired several shots in Calle Gaucín in Malaga city, injuring four people, including three hit by stray bullets..
