“It was the hardest moment of my life because of everything I lived through with Andrés and because of the way they killed him.
He just didn’t deserve to die like that.”
Witnesses at the scene reported that Escobar engaged in a verbal altercation with the Gallón Henao brothers, who were linked to drug trafficking, before their driver, Humberto Muñoz Castro, fired six shots.
Escobar died approximately 45 minutes later at a nearby hospital.
A massive public funeral was held in Medellín, attended by thousands of mourning citizens.
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Muñoz Castro was subsequently convicted and sentenced to 43 years in prison for the murder, though his sentence was later reduced, resulting in his release from custody in 2005.
