Gomez started receiving the death threats weeks before the shooting over the poor performence of Deportivo Xinabajul. Xinabajul currently lies at the bottom of Guatemala's national football league . The club also suffered a 2–0 defeat to Suchitepequez earlier in the week. The shooting of Gomez comes four months after the discovery of the body of Carlos Mercedes Vasquez, a footballer who played for Malacateco . He had been killed and chopped up, the note left by his body stated that he had been killed after he was "messing with other women."
Gomez started receiving the death threats weeks before the shooting over the poor performence of Deportivo Xinabajul. Xinabajul currently lies at the bottom of . The club also suffered a 2–0 defeat to earlier in the week. The shooting of Gomez comes four months after the discovery of the body of Carlos Mercedes Vasquez, a footballer who played for . He had been killed and chopped up, the note left by his body stated that he had been killed after he was "messing with other women."
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Guatemala's national football league
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Suchitepequez
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Malacateco