Ex-Officer Convicted in 2021 Killing of Two Tegucigalpa Police

Published on Honduras Daily · Jul 5, 2026 · Originally reported July 4, 2026 by TuNota (Canal 5 / TSI)

Five years after an April 2021 ambush in Tegucigalpa's Cerro Grande neighborhood, a court convicted former police officer Erlyn David Domínguez Banegas of murdering two patrol officers, Carlos Alfredo López Mendoza and Kenneth Ricardo Flores Alvarado, who were answering a routine call.

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