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A young man was found dead floating in Jucutuma Lagoon in San Pedro Sula with his hands and feet bound; police are investigating and attempting to identify the victim.

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.

Denilson Eliu Gómez died at Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital after being shot during an armed attack in La Flecha, Santa Bárbara.

Jaime Roberto Becker Menardi, a San Pedro Sula businessman, was shot and killed on Saturday evening as he left his shop near the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras boulevard; a gunman on a motorcycle fired multiple shots, and authorities are investigating the motive.

A man was shot and killed on Saturday at the Viveros bus station on the North Boulevard in San Pedro Sula; witnesses suggested he may have been a robbery suspect, though police have not confirmed the claim.

Milton Omar Rápalo, owner of a car wash, was shot and killed in a shopping center parking lot in San Pedro Sula on Monday afternoon; authorities are reviewing security footage and gathering evidence.

A 24-year-old motorcyclist, Mario Josué Valladares, was shot and killed by the driver of a white sedan following a traffic collision in San Pedro Sula's Felipe Zelaya neighborhood; the gunman fled and remains at large.

Martín Adonis Grandes Velásquez, a 29-year-old barber, was shot and killed in the Sandoval Sorto neighborhood of San Pedro Sula; authorities are investigating the motive.

Carlos Alberto Arriaga, 52, a produce seller at El Rápido market, was killed by shotgun fire on Saturday morning in the Las Peñitas neighborhood; police have not disclosed a motive or identified suspects.

Residents of the Smith neighborhood in San Pedro Sula alerted police to an unusual odor from a trash pile, where authorities discovered the dismembered remains of a man estimated at 35 years old, showing signs of torture; he has been taken to the morgue unidentified.

César Edgardo Ordóñez Aguilera, 18, an alleged 18th Street gang member, was arrested at a San Pedro Sula hospital — where he was being treated after a traffic accident — in connection with the May 2025 shooting death of Maycol Josué Osorto Reyes.

Cousins Javier Enrique Alvarado Dilbert, 29, and Leo Isell Dilbert Grijalba, 18, were shot while riding a motorcycle on a San Pedro Sula boulevard early Thursday; one died at the scene and the other was hospitalized in serious condition while police investigate the motive.