{"id":120815,"date":"2023-11-05T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=120815"},"modified":"2023-11-05T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T22:49:07","slug":"bodybuilding-champ-shot-dead-by-gunmen-months-after-failed-assassination-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/world-news\/bodybuilding-champ-shot-dead-by-gunmen-months-after-failed-assassination-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodybuilding champ shot dead by gunmen months after failed assassination attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A champion bodybuilder crowned Mr Mexico has been shot dead by gunmen just months after surviving a recent assassination attempt.<\/p>\n

    Luis Manuel Lomeli, 45, was driving his truck in Leon, a city in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, when motorbike-riding hitmen gunned the bodybuilder, known as The Cowboy or El Charro, down on Saturday, October 28.<\/p>\n

    The gun toting killers had pulled up beside El Charro's truck as he was driving to the gym for a workout before spraying him with bullets, reports The Sun. <\/p>\n

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    The Cowboy tried to escape by reversing his truck, however he crashed into the car behind him instead.<\/p>\n

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    According to local media Lomeli, who was crowned Mr Mexico in 2008, had managed to escape another assassination attempt when his arm was grazed by a hitman's bullet five months ago.<\/p>\n

    In an Instagram post, bodybuilding news organisation Rx Muscle said tit was " horrified" at Lomeli's death. offered stated thetheir condolences after being left "horrified" at the news.<\/p>\n

    The post read: "We send our warmest wishes to Luis' family and his many fans in Mexico and around the world.<\/p>\n

    "Just, awful."<\/p>\n

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    In other news coming from Mexico, drug lord 'El 22' was accidentally shot down by his own foot soldiers after they mistook him for a hitman from a rival gang.<\/p>\n

    In a shocking case of mistaken identity, Sinaloa Cartel gunmen loyal to Los Chapitos – the sons of infamous drug lord Joaqu\u00edn 'El Chapo' Guzm\u00e1n – were thought to have been at a private health clinic in Culiac\u00e1n, Mexico guarding another man who was receiving treatment.<\/p>\n

    A gunfight broke out when another armed man showed up. According to El Blog del Narco, that man was the elusive "El 22" – thought to have been the gangster responsible for running the cartel's operations in Guam\u00fachil, Sinaloa.<\/p>\n

    It is thought that El 22 was visiting the clinic in order to pay for the wounded man's surgery. The gunmen assumed he was a rival hitman coming to finish the injured man off.<\/p>\n

    "That's the bad thing about not knowing the boss," a source said. <\/p>\n

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