Crime Boss Gunned Down in Airport Shootout as Flights Temporarily Halted
Officials said the attack was an assassination attempt and flights were briefly suspended after the shootout at the airport.
- On Wednesday, June 17, gunmen killed Alberto Suástegui Villanueva, a 39-year-old leader of the "Los Águilas" crime gang, during a shooting at José Joaquín de Olmedo airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
- This attack followed a state of emergency declared by President Daniel Noboa across 10 provinces in response to an uptick in gang violence and organized crime across Ecuador.
- Security officials arrested two teenagers, aged 15 and 16, at the airport parking area with firearms in their possession; officials believe the pair did not act alone.
- Flights were temporarily suspended at the terminal, and the area remains in lockdown following the violence; another individual was wounded and rushed to hospital for treatment.
- Interior Minister John Reimberg confirmed Villanueva was a "high-risk, priority criminal target" who had been jailed twice and was a suspect in three ongoing police investigations.
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After the murder, police officers arrested two minors, aged 16 and 15, in the airport parking lot as the perpetrators of the execution.
The drug war in Ecuador costs the life of a notorious drug boss. Killers lurk at him with stuffed animals and flowers in front of the arrivals hall in Guayaquil. When their victim steps outside the door, they pull their pistols and open the fire. Brisant is the age of the shooters.
Surveillance cameras filmed the moment the suspected perpetrators waited outside the airport. Shortly afterwards, the shots were fired.
A drug lord has been shot dead in front of passengers at Ecuador's second-largest airport.
In Ecuador, a suspected gang leader was shot dead at the arrival hall of Guayaquil airport. Security footage shows two young men waiting for him with stuffed animals and flowers, after which one of them pulls out a weapon from behind a teddy bear and then shoots the victim at close range.
Airport Assassins Hid Guns Behind Teddy Bears
Passengers emerging from the airport in Ecuador's largest city on Wednesday walked into a scene out of a crime thriller—only it was real. Security video from Guayaquil shows two young men waiting in the arrivals area with stuffed animals and flowers before one steps forward, draws a gun from...
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