Overview
- Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Gallón was shot dead in Mexico and publicly named him as responsible for Escobar’s murder.
- Mexico’s state prosecutor’s office confirmed a body believed to be Gallón was discovered Wednesday in Huixquilucan and is undergoing forensic identification.
- A source from the Toluca prosecutor’s office told AFP the victim was shot in a restaurant in the State of Mexico municipality.
- Gallón and his brother were previously investigated for obstruction of justice in the Escobar case, spending 15 months in detention without trial.
- He was sentenced in 2010 for financing paramilitary groups and was placed with his brother on a 2015 U.S. Treasury blacklist tied to La Oficina de Envigado.