Edison Cortes, 27, was blasted at close range while his brother Fredy was gunned down as he chased the hired assassin.
This is the horrifying moment a hitman gunned down a customer in a packed Colombian bar - before shooting the man's brother dead as he tried to stop him fleeing.
The assassin walked in, ordered a beer and smoked a cigarette as he calmly identified his target before pulling a gun out of a shoulder bag and firing at him five times, leaving him critically injured.
The victim's brother rushed at him to stop him firing a sixth shot - but was blasted in the chest and died at the scene.
CCTV shows the brother chase after the gunman, staggering back through the door a short time later.
The man appears to be exhausted - but he soon collapses and it becomes apparent that he has been shot as blood seeps from a wound visible through his white T-shirt.
The shocking images were broadcast on Colombian TV today as police appealed for information on the mystery assassin.
Edison Cortes, 27, remains critically ill in hospital where he is under police guard.
His brother, named as 25-year-old Fredy Cortes, was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting in a suburb of the capital Bogota.
He leaves a pregnant wife and a seven year-old daughter.
Both worked as electrical engineers for a company owned by their father.
Their mother Nancy insisted she had no idea why the hitman had targeted her eldest son.
Edison had phoned her moments before the attack to say he would drop by to see her after a beer with his brother and two friends.
Devastated Nancy, a regular church-goer, said: "I don't know why anyone would want to kill Edison.
"He was a hard-working boy who wasn't involved in anything he shouldn't have been.
"We're terrified now that the assassin will try to murder him in hospital."
Thousands of hitmen are allegedly available for hire in Colombia.
Two years ago, Spanish newspaper El Pais put the number of assassins in the city of Medellin, home to Pablo Escobar's legendary drugs cartel, at around 5,000.
It was claimed they were willing to kill for just over TWO POUNDS.
Medellin police commander General Yesid Vasquez dismissed the report as rubbish, saying it did not reflect the city's current reality.
He claimed the real number of hitmen in the city was closer to 500.
This is the horrifying moment a hitman gunned down a customer in a packed Colombian bar - before shooting the man's brother dead as he tried to stop him fleeing.
The assassin walked in, ordered a beer and smoked a cigarette as he calmly identified his target before pulling a gun out of a shoulder bag and firing at him five times, leaving him critically injured.
The victim's brother rushed at him to stop him firing a sixth shot - but was blasted in the chest and died at the scene.
CCTV shows the brother chase after the gunman, staggering back through the door a short time later.
The man appears to be exhausted - but he soon collapses and it becomes apparent that he has been shot as blood seeps from a wound visible through his white T-shirt.
The shocking images were broadcast on Colombian TV today as police appealed for information on the mystery assassin.
Edison Cortes, 27, remains critically ill in hospital where he is under police guard.
His brother, named as 25-year-old Fredy Cortes, was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting in a suburb of the capital Bogota.
He leaves a pregnant wife and a seven year-old daughter.
Both worked as electrical engineers for a company owned by their father.
Their mother Nancy insisted she had no idea why the hitman had targeted her eldest son.
Edison had phoned her moments before the attack to say he would drop by to see her after a beer with his brother and two friends.
Devastated Nancy, a regular church-goer, said: "I don't know why anyone would want to kill Edison.
"He was a hard-working boy who wasn't involved in anything he shouldn't have been.
"We're terrified now that the assassin will try to murder him in hospital."
Thousands of hitmen are allegedly available for hire in Colombia.
Two years ago, Spanish newspaper El Pais put the number of assassins in the city of Medellin, home to Pablo Escobar's legendary drugs cartel, at around 5,000.
It was claimed they were willing to kill for just over TWO POUNDS.
Medellin police commander General Yesid Vasquez dismissed the report as rubbish, saying it did not reflect the city's current reality.
He claimed the real number of hitmen in the city was closer to 500.
Source : Mirror
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