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Shocking footage of man 'shot 100 times' in taxi by machine-gun wielding assassins
11:29, 10 Oct 2015
Updated 15:53, 10 Oct 2015
By Ross Logan
The victim was travelling with a female passenger when men armed with assault rifles opened fire on the taxi
- video at link -
A man has died in a hail of bullets after reportedly being shot at 100 times while sitting in a taxi in Costa Rica.
Video footage uploaded to Live Leak show a black saloon car stopping a red taxi at a junction in the San Francisco de Dos Rios district of the central American country.
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A group of men armed with AK-47s get out of the black car and spray the red car with bullets.
They then drive off as passers-by try to help the injured.
More:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shocking-footage-man-shot-100-6608619
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)The man was identified by a spokesperson from the Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) as Dennis Omier Taylor of Limón. Police said that a 30-year-old woman thought to be the mans wife and the taxi driver were seriously injured in the attack.
http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/10/09/suspected-costa-rican-hit-man-violently-murdered-broad-daylight-san-jose-street
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)After seeing your post, I went looking and found this, about the dead man:
Dead is 34 year-old Denis Omier Taylor, which according to the Ministerio de Seguridad Pública (MSP) is linked to organized crime in Limon and alleged trigger man: for the Chichi Colegang, linked to at least 15 homicides. Taylor was to stand trial for attempted murder in the coming days.
http://qcostarica.com/security-camera-captures-shooting-in-san-franciso-de-dos-rios-video/
This is insane!
Taylor probably wasn't too surprised when the shooting started, I'll bet.
Thank you, so much!
mackerel
(4,412 posts)"This marks the 147th drug-related murder in the country in the past nine months, according to OIJ. Most of the murders have occurred in Limón province and in the San José suburb of Desamparados, according to police statistics. The district of San Francisco de Dos Ríos is located on the northern border of the Desamparados canton."
This Denis Taylor dude, I can'f find a pic but I have to wonder if he's American or from the UK?