Global Courant 2023-05-26 16:29:00
Industrial engineer Maynor Edgardo Mata was described by his friends as a loving father who brought his wife and daughter with him wherever he went.
Mata was assassinated on Wednesday by a security guard at a shopping center in the Los Castaños neighborhood.
He crime against Mata was captured by cameras installed in one of the commercial premises of the shopping center.
In the video, which went viral on social media, the guard is seen hiding behind a base, then faces Maynor Edgardo and proceeds to shoot him.
In the footage, it can be seen that the engineer in his attempt to save his life begins to roll on the ground and the guard follows him and continues shooting at him.
Witnesses to the murder reported that Maynor Edgardo Mata When he was rolling on the floor in his eagerness to save his life, he begged the guard not to kill him because he had a young daughter.
The professional’s pleas did not move the guard and he discharged his revolver at him, inflicting six bullets on him. According to versions of people who work in the shopping center, hours before the crime the watchman and Mata had an altercation.
They said that the discussion occurred because the guard did not allow the engineer to put a ladder in one of the corridors of the premises to do maintenance work on the air conditioners of a restaurant. Supposedly, the engineer Maynor Edgardo went to report to the guard, which made him angry and in revenge he took his life.
To know
The corpse of the industrial engineer Maynor Edgardo Mata was buried yesterday after being held for a wake in the Lempira neighborhood of the Chamelecón sector.
Maynor Edgardo Mata’s friends do not believe what happened and describe him as someone friendly.
His friends knew him by his middle name (Edgardo) and he was very popular in his neighborhood as a passionate soccer fan, a faithful follower of Olympia.
Mata’s friends do not believe that the allegation was a big deal and they even doubt that there was any offense from the engineer, whom they describe as an educated person.
On his Facebook profile he had a photo with his two great loves and his daughter as the main photograph, while his friends congratulated him on the way he showed off his family.
still fugitive
The security guard who killed Maynor Edgardo Mata was identified by police authorities as Jose Adam Herrerawho until yesterday was still a fugitive.
