America soccer star shot in a bar
Martes, 26 de Enero de 2010
BY STEPHEN WADE
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY Salvador Cabañas, the top player on Paraguay's World Cup team, was shot in the head before dawn Monday in the bathroom of a bar in a well-off neighborhood in Mexico City.
The 29-year-old striker was in critical condition with what Mexico City Attorney General Miguel Angel Mancera called "life-threatening" injuries. A lead surgeon called Cabañas' situation "in God's hands."
Mancera visited the bar and said from the crime scene that robbery did not appear a motive "because nothing was taken."
Cabañas plays for the Mexico City team America. Club president Michel Bauer said Cabañas was conscious when he arrived at the hospital and was speaking as he awaited surgery to remove a bullet from the front of his skull.
"He was a bit confused and didn't know what had happened and he was asking where they were taking him and why they were taking him there," Bauer told Televisa.
Bauer said Cabañas' wife told him the two were preparing to leave the bar when the shooting took place in a bathroom. His wife said she found her husband on the bathroom floor.
Mancera said four people were being questioned two security guards, the bar manager and Cabañas' brother-in-law. He said the brother-in-law volunteered to testify.
Cabañas has played in the Mexico league since 2003 and is the highest-profile player on his national team. Paraguay will face Italy, New Zealand and Slovakia in the group stage of the World Cup in South Africa in June.
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