An independent candidate in the upcoming election was one of two men gunned down on Sunday afternoon, March 31 as they sat talking on the side of a soccer field in Rana de Oro. Pedregal. Two others were injured.

Fidel Álvarez, the candidate died at the JJ Vallarino Hospital of the Social Security Fund, where he was taken to receive medical attention. He was well known in the area as an organizer of soccer tournaments, one of which was played two hours before his death. The other victim.Edwin Romero Sáenz.  died at the crime scene., The two injured men are reported to be out of danger.

According to official reports, the assassins arrived in a white sedan fired and then fled. The vehicle was abandoned near the area where they committed the crime. Units of the National Police that arrived quickly at the scene initiated a search for the vehicle and found it abandoned in Calle s Q, Villa-Lobos, Pedregal, according to police commissioner Jorge Miranda