Homicide

A security guard was shot and killed during an armed robbery at a diner in San Juan Pueblo, Atlantida; surveillance footage captured two suspects fleeing the scene.

A 15-year-old girl, Bany Danely Muñoz Mejía, was found dead in the remote hamlet of El Chaparrón in Zacapa, Santa Bárbara; authorities are investigating the circumstances, with family members suspecting a crime of passion.

A National Police officer, Cristian Fabricio Blandín Arriaza, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the April 2026 killing of Ángelo Uriel García Murillo, a young man who left home to deliver medicine to his mother in La Ceiba.

Gloria Marina López Pineda went to trial in San Pedro Sula on charges of killing her newborn daughter with a knife in May 2025; prosecutors presented forensic and witness evidence, while the defense offered documentary proof.

A taxi driver was killed by unknown assailants on Seventh Avenue in Comayagüela on October 19; authorities are investigating but have not yet identified the victim or established a motive.

A judge ordered Yuri Gabriela Castañeda Melgar held pending trial on charges of ordering the murder of a pregnant woman, Yeni Elizabeth Rivera, in Colón over an alleged romantic dispute.

Police arrested José Mauricio Interiano Perdomo, alias Casper, identified as a leader of the El Mudo gang in San Pedro Sula; authorities link him to a mass killing in April 2021 and allege the group commits home robberies, armed assaults, and murders.

Brian Alexander Sánchez, 27, was identified as the body found bagged and bearing signs of torture in the Ticamaya sector of Cortés; authorities are investigating the killing.

A teenage girl was sentenced to six years in prison for her role in the April 2026 killing of content creator Katerin Mejía, who was lured under false pretenses to Trujillo and later found dead in Tocoa; two other adults remain in pretrial detention in the case.

A judge ordered Ricardo Esteban Salgado Solano held in pretrial detention on charges of murder, attempted murder of family members, and animal cruelty for a machete attack in Tegucigalpa on October 9 that killed Sandra Verónica Salgado.

Walter Henríquez, a migrant from Olancho, was killed in a knife attack in Barcelona early on October 13, allegedly over 50 euros; police opened an investigation into the robbery-related homicide.

Samuel Antonio Ulloa Pinel faces an initial hearing on October 15 in the death of Jack Isaí López Castro, whose body was found in a septic tank in a Tegucigalpa residential area after an alcohol-fueled altercation on October 8.

Mario Roberto Escobar, 48, died after being attacked with a machete by his brother during a family argument in the San Isidro neighborhood of Puerto Cortés; the circumstances remain under investigation.

Police arrested Aldair Torres Romero, 21, in Concepción del Norte, Santa Bárbara, on suspicion of coordinating drug distribution points and ordering homicides as an MS-13 member.

Concepción Alemán, 75, was killed by armed men in Las Casitas, El Paraíso, as she returned home from a church meeting; authorities have not identified suspects or a motive.

National Police arrested a man accused of stabbing Jack Isai López to death with a knife in Comayagüela and hiding the body in a sewer, according to the Directorate of Police Investigations.

Víctor Isaías Sánchez Flores, reported missing after being intercepted by unknown individuals in the capital, was found dead in Corralitos, Francisco Morazán; his abandoned vehicle bore a bullet hole in the windshield.

Yessenia Alfaro, 37, from Gualaco in Olancho, was murdered in Sabá, Colón, after recently returning from the United States; a 27-year-old Salvadoran suspect has been arrested.

Timoteo Castillo was found dead in his home in El Naranjo, Lepaterique, with multiple mutilations including decapitation, as police investigate the homicide with no suspects yet identified.

Honduran police arrested a man wanted on an international red notice for his alleged involvement in the killing of two environmental defenders after three years as a fugitive.

Residents discovered the remains of a man identified only as Esteban inside an abandoned two-story house in central Santa Cruz de Yojoa; authorities are investigating.

Margarita Sánchez, 45, was killed in a knife attack early Sunday in the San Ramón neighborhood of Siguatepeque, Comayagua, with police investigating the incident.

Unknown assailants shot and killed a man in the 13 de Julio neighborhood of Tegucigalpa during heavy rain, with the victim collapsing on nearby stairs as he fled.

A 32-year-old man, Olvin Ramos, was discovered dead in brush near San Lucas, El Paraíso, bearing signs of blunt-force trauma; authorities are investigating the motive and identity of those responsible.

One month after former Olimpia player Kenny Martínez Webster, 22, was shot dead in Punta Gorda on September 1, his family is pressing authorities to arrest two additional suspects; one suspect, identified as a relative, is already in pretrial detention.

Three men—Carlos Chirinos, Cristian Chirinos, and José Benito Cálix—were found dead in a home in the Villa Santa neighborhood of Juticalpa, Olancho, apparently shot; authorities have begun investigating the killings.

Joel Wilfredo Herrera Urbina, 47, was fatally stabbed in the chest and abdomen during a dispute with his partner at a drink stand in Villa Adela, Comayagüela, on Sunday night; the woman was arrested at the scene.

Onasis Jafet Rodríguez Gómez, 25, was found dead Monday morning in the Miraflores neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, bound and wrapped in a black plastic bag; police are investigating.

Carlos Noé López and Javier Antonio Espinoza, a mototaxi driver, were killed by gunfire inside a home in the El 50 neighborhood of Agua Blanca, El Progreso; authorities have released no details on motive or suspects.

Kelvin Geovany Perdomo López, 30, was found shot to death Saturday morning on the banks of the Choloma River in Cortés; authorities have not yet established the circumstances or identified suspects.