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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.

Óscar Josué Zavala, 18, was fatally shot in the Suyapa neighborhood of Choluteca on August 31; his mother said she had warned him not to go out minutes before he was killed, and two others were also wounded in the attack.

Between August 12 and 15, a law student was shot dead in a San Pedro Sula law office, three women were killed in separate incidents across Comayagua, Valle, and Francisco Morazán within roughly 24 hours, and police in Olanchito arrested suspects linked to a massacre and other violent crimes.

Gracia María Medina Bonilla, a 30-year-old UNAH student studying physical education who coached girls' soccer in her neighborhood, was shot and killed on June 4, 2019, when a gunman asked about school hours at her Los Pinos home, waited for someone to open a window, and fired at point-blank range.

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 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.

On March 6, 2016, five armed men dressed as police officers entered a billiard hall in Tegucigalpa's Primero de Diciembre neighborhood and opened fire with AK-47s, killing 12 people and wounding three in one of Honduras's deadliest massacres.

Experts say about 20% of Honduras's homicides involve attackers on motorcycles, a tactic that allows rapid execution and escape; a 2012 law banning two men per bike in certain municipalities remains poorly enforced.

Cinthia Melissa Hernández Cruz, 18, who disappeared on June 25, was found buried in the yard of a house in Tegucigalpa's La Sosa neighborhood after residents reported a foul odor; authorities are investigating the death.

Three men were killed in El Negrito, Yoro, early on July 2; police are investigating possible links to cattle rustling complaints in the area in recent weeks.

Doris Mayell Mendoza, a former National Party official and candidate for vice mayor of Tegucigalpa, surrendered to police after shooting a man who allegedly entered her home in Juticalpa to rob it; authorities say she acted in self-defense when he attacked her with a club.

The 2011 killing of two university students by National Police officers in Tegucigalpa sparked Honduras's largest police purge, leading authorities to separate about 6,000 officers and hire 14,000 new recruits under reformed standards.

Students, graduates, and colleagues in Cofradía, Cortés have flooded social media with tributes to Víctor Fiallos, the beloved founder and principal of Instituto Polivalente Gubernamental Brisas del Valle, whose killing authorities are still investigating.