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A young Latino soccer player is shot dead in Florida: his stepmother "started playing" with a gun, pointed it at him and the gun went off

2022-06-14T15:03:25.290Z


"Just the same I told her 'don't play with that', and she laughed, as well as 'don't worry, nothing is going to happen,' said a friend of the young man who "was afraid of him." "My last image of him is seeing him there , lying on the floor," he lamented.


A Latino teenager died last weekend after he was accidentally shot by his stepmother during a family gathering at their Florida home after jokingly using the gun, according to family and law enforcement sources.

Police received a notice at 6:29 p.m. Saturday and went to a home in Pembroke Pines, between Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

Agents found 15-year-old Aquiles López, captain of the Miramar United Elite FC soccer team, badly injured.

The young man was taken to an area hospital, but died shortly after.

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"Our preliminary investigation has determined that an adult female was handling a weapon inside the residence when the weapon discharged and fatally struck the teenager. They were both family members," police said Sunday.

The young man's family had gathered to celebrate the graduation of his little brothers, according to his friend Carlos Santos.

"His stepmother started playing with the gun that was on the table," a weapon that "usually isn't there [because] Aquiles' father always has it in his car," he explained to the authorities in statements collected by the local station. Telemundo 51.

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"Just the same, I told her 'don't play with it because it's a gun,' and she laughed, as well as 'don't worry, nothing's going to happen,'" Santos revealed, "but I was afraid of her, because it was a gun, and As soon as we were leaving, he kept pointing at the dogs, me and Aquiles".

Santos left the room and seconds later he heard a shot.

Upon returning, the young man was no longer breathing: he was on the ground and his face was pale, he said: "My last image of him is seeing him there, lying on the floor."

Initial investigations suggest the gun went off inadvertently due to negligence and mishandling, police said, adding that everyone is cooperating with detectives.

The Prosecutor's Office will decide whether to file charges, according to the local NBC News station.

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His soccer club mates gathered at a vigil Monday to remember Lopez, wearing an armband bearing his squad number, 6, according to teammate Diego Suarez.

"I had the pleasure of coaching him one year where he was the captain of my team. He wasn't the fastest, he wasn't the biggest, but he had the biggest heart," team manager Richard Jobson recalled, according to the Local10.com site.

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His colleagues "can't understand why this happened, how it happened," Jobson said: "We can't explain it."

Suárez recalled: "The last thing I said to him was 'I love you, brother'."

Source: telemundo

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