TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Prosecutors said Friday that an autopsy shows Honduran national soccer team player Arnold Peralta suffered 18 gunshot wounds in what they called a "vicious attack."
Peralta was killed Thursday when he was attacked at a shopping mall in his hometown.
The statement from the chief prosecutors' office says Peralta "was viciously attacked, and he died of multiple gunshot wounds to the skull, face and chest."
The killing occurred at the parking lot of the Uniplaza mall in La Ceiba, on the country's Caribbean coast. Police said two men on a motorcycle sprayed Peralta with bullets.