Photos/video: Man is shot dead as he tries to intervene when he sees a man abusing his girlfriend

A good Samaritan was shot dead when he saw a man abusing his girlfriend and decided to intervene. Alfredo Israel Hernández García Rebollo, 23, was inside a popular Mexican nightclub in Cuernavaca, Mexico, at about 4 a.m. on September 29 when he saw a young man arguing with a woman.
He sat watching the scene for a while then decided to help the woman when he saw she was looking distressed. He walked up to the couple and stepped between them then began leading the woman away but the aggressor, identified as Óscar Muñoz aka El Negro, 30, did not appreciate the interference and a fight ensued.

El Negro fell to the floor as they fought and another onlooker came and kicked him from the back. He stood immediately pulled a gun and shot Israel point-blank in the chest. Isreal fell to the floor but the attack did not stop there. El Negro kicked his body several times but other onlookers were already afraid to intervene because of the gun he had. The incident was captured by security cameras inside the nightclub.

El Negro

According to the records of the State Attorney’s Office, the man who shot is the son of a woman who is detained for drug trafficking in a federal penitentiary and has links to a member of the "Los Beltrán Leyva" organization known as "Abel Maya". It is known that El Negro belongs to the drug gangs that currently control the sale and distribution of drugs in the dens of Cuernavaca.

                                                                   Isreal Rebollo

Enrique Paredes, lawyer for the relatives of the young man killed, explained that the staff of the Attico - the facility where the incident took place - manipulated the evidence.

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