Police Officer Kills Woman in Sabanagrande, Then Takes Own Life

Published on Honduras Daily · Jul 19, 2026 · Originally reported July 18, 2026 by Once Noticias

A police officer shot his neighbor, a woman, in the aldea of La Ceiba in Sabanagrande, wounding her daughter, then died by suicide at the scene; authorities are investigating the killing as a femicide, with such deaths in Honduras topping 150 so far in 2026.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for Once Noticias, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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