Violence

Jorge Benjamín Martínez Ramos, 27, a Salvadoran who had lived in Yarula, La Paz, for six months, was identified after being found bagged in a sewer in Marcala on August 27; authorities are investigating the circumstances of his death.

Two people were killed Saturday afternoon when unknown assailants opened fire on their vehicle in El Pino, Atlántida, sparking alarm in the community.

Honduras saw 235 alerts of attacks on journalists, communicators, and human rights defenders during 2024–2025, with a 19.6% spike in 2025 during the electoral period; C-Libre documents 11 murders, an 86.6% impunity rate, and state actors responsible for over half of all incidents.

Rigoberto Medina, a mototaxi driver, was shot multiple times and killed between Nueva Esperanza and San Bartolo in Santa Cruz de Yojoa, then his body and vehicle were set on fire.

Marvin Omar Fernández, about 45, was killed after an unidentified assailant entered his law office in downtown San Pedro Sula and shot him multiple times; police have opened an investigation, with no motive yet established.

An armed robbery attempt at a market in Olanchito, Yoro, on Monday left a man dead and the store owner seriously wounded after an exchange of gunfire; police are investigating.

Yamileth Bonilla Avilés, a 20-to-22-year-old mother of two and social media content creator from Nueva Arcadia, Copán, was killed in an armed attack early Sunday in La Entrada as she traveled by motorcycle.

A man was fatally attacked with a blade and set on fire on the CA-11 highway near Belén, Lempira; authorities recovered the charred body and sent it for forensic identification.

Emily Dayana Muñoz, 9, was kidnapped from her home in Sabá, Colón on August 2, found dead in a plastic bag the next day, and buried Tuesday as her family and community demanded authorities pursue her killer; preliminary autopsy findings confirmed violent death by blunt-force trauma to the head.

Jazmín Guillén was shot and killed in her home in El Progreso on September 11; she leaves behind two infant twins, and police are investigating the motive and seeking the unknown assailant.