Former world skating champion Luz Mery Tristán ‘shot lifeless by fiancé’

Former world skating champion Luz Mery Tristán was allegedly shot lifeless by her fiancé at her condomonium in Colombia.

The 60-year-old was discovered lifeless on Saturday at her residence, mentioned the Cali Metropolitan Police. It got here after officers responded to stories of a home dispute.

Police subsequently arrested her associate, Andrés Ricci, 58, who was discovered holding the weapon believed to have been used within the incident. Authorities mentioned that Ricci was inebriated on the time of the apprehension, reports the Daily Mail.

Ricci allegedly admitted the killing throughout a digital court docket listening to on Sunday.

He is reportedly dealing with one cost of aggravated feminicide and three different counts, together with trafficking and unlawful possession of a firearm. A search of Tristán’s house is believed to have uncovered six weapons thought to belong to Ricci.

It is just not recognized if the couple, who have been because of wed in October, have been dwelling collectively. Tristán rose to fame in 1990 when she turned the primary Colombian to win a gold medal within the 5,000-metre competitors on the Inline Speed Skating World Championships in Bello, Colombia.

She additionally received the 5,00-metre occasion and bronze within the relay race on the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana. Before that she was a part of a crew that competed within the 1986 Tour de France.

She was often called the “gold wheel pioneer”. Winning 19 titles, Tristán is credited of paving the way in which for future skaters.

She opened the Luz Mery Tristán Sports Center in 2006. It has since produced champions Daniela Mendoza, Rommy Muñoz, Sebastián Garcés and Johana Viveros.

Elías del Valle known as Tristán “an icon of Colombian skating.” He mentioned: “She opened the doors of world skating and told Colombian skaters that it was possible to win gold medals, that it was possible to reach the world skating elite and that Colombia had talent.”

Previously Tristán was married to drug lord Joaquín Valencia. The couple had 5 youngsters collectively earlier than Valencia was extradited to the USA in 2004.

Identified because the successor of the Cali Cartel, Valencia was sentenced to 40 years behind bars and ordered to handover $110 million. He was convicted for drug trafficking and cash laundering.