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CR!S NEWS) It was 1:30am Thursday when apparently two men on a motorcycle opened fire on a man in the front of the Hotel Del Rey in downtown San Jose.
According to the sketchy report by Diario Extra, the two men on the motorcycle fired while in motion, hitting a man identified as Fonseca, apparently a local taxi driver.
Manuel Miranda, paramedic for the Cruz Roja, told the Extra that the man 45 year old man was impacted twice in the waist.
A friend of CR!S, in the area at the time of the shooting, sent a note saying that it was over quickly and the target was the taxi driver, over some dispute over drugs and/or money.
This is not the first time. Over the years, similar incidents have occurred around the area of the Hotel del Rey. On one occasion several years back a gunman firing at building’s glass doors.
Incidents around Gringo Gulch as seldom reported by the mainstream media. Information is relied mostly by word of mouth and thanks to periodicals like the Extra that bills itself as Costa Rica’s best selling newspaper, partly due to the sensationalism and stretching the truth, and the photos of almost naked “grandotas” (big picture) of women on Fridays.
The motive for the shooting is unclear.