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A Honduran court sentenced security guard Sandro José Martínez Núñez to 18 years in prison after he confessed to murdering 14-year-old Hong Xi Xuan in a family business in Tegucigalpa on April 25; the abbreviated procedure allowed a reduction from the standard 20–25-year sentence for murder.

Joel Alexander Álvarez Uclés, 16, was killed by gunfire in Tegucigalpa's Nueva Suyapa neighborhood after entering a gang-controlled area and being chased into a sector known as "El Infiernito," where he was shot multiple times.

Security camera footage circulating on social media shows a suspect threatening a couple and stealing their motorcycle in the Modelo neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, with no arrests or recovery of the bike reported so far.

Police arrested Carlos Roberto Cruz Velásquez, 49, on an outstanding warrant for the November 2021 death of Cruz Alexander Soto Elvir, whom authorities say he shot while working as a security guard at a pharmacy after the victim allegedly robbed a nearby branch.

Rescue workers recovered the body of a 9-year-old girl from the wreckage of a runaway dump truck that lost its brakes in the Villa Nueva neighborhood, bringing the death toll to eight.

Honduran champion Motagua has signed 23-year-old Italo-Honduran center-back Valerio Marinacci, a left-footed defender who trained in Lazio's youth academy, as the club's second reinforcement ahead of upcoming tournaments.