Alfredo Pacheco, formerly a defender for the New York Red Bulls and El Salvador's international side, was shot and killed in his home country on Sunday.
Nelson Renteria of Reuters reported the news, noting the Salvadoran attorney general's office said its "office in Santa Ana processed the crime scene of the murder of Alfredo Pacheco at 3:30 a.m. in a petrol station."
Per the report, "authorities" said Pacheco was talking with friends in the station when "an unknown assailant" opened fire on the group "various times." Two more people were hospitalised in the attack and treated in Santa Ana.