A soccer referee in Argentina was shot three times and killed after issuing a player a red card.
According to police, 48-year-old Cesar Flores was shot in the head, neck and chest by a player he ejected from a match. The unnamed player also left 25-year-old Walter Zarate wounded with a gunshot, according to Metro.
“It all happened during the match,” said a police spokesman. “We don’t know what happened with the referee but the player was angry and went to get his gun and killed him.”
Police are in a manhunt attempting to track down the alleged killer.
Soccer-related deaths in Argentina are nothing new. According to a Time story in 2014, there were more than a dozen deaths around the sport that year. In May 2015, Argentina suspended play of the sport throughout the country after what was believed to be an accidental shove into a concrete pillar of Emanuel Ortega.
(Via Metro)
