Overview
- Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on X that Gallón was killed and publicly tied him to paramilitary structures and to figures associated with Álvaro Uribe.
- Prosecutors in the State of Mexico opened a homicide inquiry after a man was shot in a Huixquilucan restaurant, with forensic work underway to verify identity and determine cause of death and no arrests announced.
- Gallón’s name appeared in investigations into the 1994 killing of footballer Andrés Escobar, though the convicted gunman was the Gallón brothers’ driver, Humberto Muñoz Castro, while the brothers faced only cover-up charges.
- U.S. authorities sanctioned Santiago and Pedro David Gallón in 2015 under OFAC for alleged ties to La Oficina de Envigado, and another brother was extradited to the United States in 2011 on narcotics charges.
- Petro used the case to urge Antioquia voters to bar people linked to criminal groups from office, as experts note Mexico has served as a base and battleground for Colombian criminal actors.