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Revision as of 01:11, 24 August 2022
| Disgrace of Denshire | |
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| Location | Denshire, Jakiz, Creeperopolis |
| Date | 17 November 2013, 4:21 p.m. ATL |
| Target | National Football Association referees |
Attack type | Massacre, mass shooting |
| Weapons |
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| Deaths | 8 |
| Perpetrators | Mara Salvatrucha |
No. of participants | 15 |
| Verdict | Guilty |
| Convictions | Murder (x8), Terrorism, Conspiracy |
On Sunday 17 November 2013, a football match between CF Denshire and CF Tuxtla Martínez ended in a 2–1 victory for Tuxtla Martínez. Tuxtla Martínez midfielder Antonio Mesonero Rosales was named man of the match. The match was the second meeting between the two clubs of the 2013–14 Liga Imperial, with the prior meeting in Tuxtla Martínez in August 2013 ending in a 0–0 draw.
The match's five referees, Jorge Castro León, Armando Figueroa Hurtado, Armandiér Guilhém e Castél, Gonzalo Gómez Fuentes, and Fabián Quijada Ramírez, were all murder by Mara Salvatrucha after the match in an execution-style firing squad after their car was pulled over by three cars filled with armed gunmen. The driver and two National Football Association (ANF) technical staff were also murdered.
Background
A football match was held on Sunday 17 November 2013 between CF Denshire and CF Tuxtla Martínez. The match was the second played between the two teams that year, with the prior match in August ending in a 0–0 draw. The match occurred in Denshire. During the match, Tuxtla Martínez's Antonio Mesonero Rosales scored in the 31st minute, and the first half ended with Tuxtla Martínez leading Denshire 1–0. In the first minute of the second half, Ismael Gutiérrez Sandoval scored to equalize the match at 1–1.
In the 58th minute, a controversial penalty was awarded to Tuxtla Martínez after Denshire defender José Serrano Pérez was given a red card for tripping José Videla Castro by Jorge Castro León. Although video of the incident showed that Videla Castro tripped himself, the penalty stood and it was converted by Videla Castro. As a result of the penalty, the match ended in a 2–1 victory for Tuxtla Martínez.
| Denshire | 1–2 | Tuxtla Martínez |
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46Attack
After the match, when the referees were being driven out of the Crusader Miguel I Stadium, three black cars with tinted windows surrounded the van in which the referees were inside. Armed gunmen poured out of the cars and ordered everyone in the van to exit. The five referees, Jorge Castro León, Armando Figueroa Hurtado, Armandiér Guilhém e Castél, Gonzalo Gómez Fuentes, and Fabián Quijada Ramírez, the driver, José Guerrero Tejón, and two National Football Association technical staff, Leonardo Ruíz Piñon and Enrique Yagüe Salinas, there held at gunpoint on the side of the road, and the gunmen eventually shot all eight men in a firing squad-style execution. The gunmen fired 86 bullets at the eight men, got back into their cars, and fled the scene.
Police investigation
The Creeperian National Police (PNC) arrived at the scene of the shooting two minutes after the gunshots were reported. Paramedics on the scene pronounced all of the referees and one of the technical staff members dead, with the driver and other technical staff member being taken to a hospital, where they later died of their injuries.
Augusto Ortega Quiñónez, the chief of police of Denshire, stated that the men involved in the shooting would be "surely put to death" in a press conference shortly after the shooting. Surveillance footage of the shooting from a nearby office building caught the shooting. The footage helped police identify the vehicles which were used in the attack. All the vehicles were 2006 Azavedo 8 3CTs and all of their license plates were identified. Over the next five weeks, the police arrested eleven suspects and killed four more in shootouts.
The eleven arrested men were convicted of eight counts of murder, terrorism, and conspiracy by a judge in February 2014. The judge concluded that the shooting was committed due to the penalty which was awarded by Castro León, which cost Denshire the match. The judge believed that the loss cost the gunmen to lose a bet, and they referees were murdered in revenge. The eleven men were sentenced to death by firing squad. Their executions were carried out on 6 March 2014.
Aftermath
The day of the shooting, the National Football Association issued a statement sending their condolences to the families of the eight men who were murdered. CF Denshire and CF Tuxtla Martínez made similar statements, condemning the shooting. The following Sunday, every football match held a moment of silence for the eight men who were killed. The ANF has since assigned an armed guard to accompany referees when arriving at or leaving stadiums.
