A Honduran cameraman dies of a bullet in the head for stealing his motorcycle

The cameraman Honduran Ricardo Ávila, 25, died this Sunday of a bullet to the head he received on the 26th, when criminals apparently tried to steal his motorcycle in a village in the department of Choluteca, in southern Honduras.

Avila was admitted on May 26 to the Teaching Hospital in Tegucigalpa, where today died from a gunshot wound to the headwithout an exit hole, an official source from the hospital told journalists.

He added that Ávila arrived unconscious at the hospitalin a very delicate state of health.

Among other complications, the Honduran communicator also suffered a generalized cerebral edema, according to the official report of the Hospital Escuela.

The assailants who attacked Ávila shot him in the head and a bullet went through the helmet he was wearing, local media reported the day of the crime.

The head of the National Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras (Conadeh), Blanca Izaguirre, lamented the death of Avila and said that “enough of so much crime.”

He added that Ávila becomes the fourth person linked to the media to lose his life violently so far this year and 93 since 2001.

Ávila worked for the Metro TV Channel in the city of Choluteca, department of the same name, bordering Nicaragua, and directed the program Metro TV Noticias Fin de Semana.

Izaguirre stressed that “the Honduran justice system is obliged to intensify its efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for this type of crime.”

According to official sources, criminal violence in Honduras leaves an average of between ten and thirteen people dead.