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Police arrested a 16-year-old accused in the September 2025 shooting death of 66-year-old merchant Ada Díaz in La Ceiba; authorities say the killing may have resulted from mistaken identity, with the victim allegedly confused with a rival gang informant.

Estefany Guevara Varela, 26, from Santa Ana de Yusguare in Choluteca, was found dead in Mexico with a shotgun wound; her family awaits autopsy results and is seeking $3,300 to repatriate her body for burial.

Doris Mayell Mendoza, a former vice minister, says she shot a man in Olancho in self-defense after months of threats and attacks that she reported to authorities without receiving protection, and a judge has allowed her to face trial in freedom.

Mario Macedo, his sister Carmen Lobo, and Lobo's daughter Yaritza Suárez were shot dead at their home in rural Yoro in an attack police believe was retaliation for property damage months earlier; multiple gunmen on motorcycles carried out the killings.

Suyapa Zamora died after being attacked with a club by her partner at their home in Arenas, Sonaguera, Colón; police launched an investigation into the killing.

Esly Michell García Pacheco, 35, a woman using crutches, was shot ten times in a Comayagüela alley on June 8; her death underscores the persistence of femicide and near-total impunity in Honduras, where rights groups report a 95 percent rate of unresolved killings of women.

A judge ordered pretrial detention for Carlos Molina and Williams Reyes, who are accused as co-perpetrators in a mass killing that left 19 people dead in the Colón village of Rigores.

Elvia Mercedes Gómez, a nurse found dead in her San Manuel home in Cortés, is being investigated as a possible femicide, with her partner the main suspect; the death brings the toll of violent deaths of women in Honduras to at least 112 in 2026.

Authorities arrested Carlos Alexis Molina Mencía, alias "Gato Negro," near La Ceiba in connection with the May 21 massacre in Rigores, Colón, and believe six to seven people were involved in the killing of 20 victims.