Edwin Mosquera Roa, finalist in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, in the weightlifting category, was murdered in the municipality of Palmira, in the department of Valle del Cauca, by an unknown person who shot him twice, according to official sources.

"It was a crazy person who did this to him. I ask the authorities to thoroughly investigate because many things happen in this country and they don't come to the surface. I hope that the death of my son will not go unpunished," said Juana Mosquera, the athlete's mother, during her son's wake in Medellín.

Edwin Mosquera Roa, native of the department of Chocó, was a professional soldier in the Agustín Codazzi Engineers Battalion in Palmira for 14 years.

His body arrived on Monday morning at the Villa Nueva funeral home in Medellín, where soldiers received him with flower wreaths and his family expressed bewilderment over the events that occurred in a bar in Palmira, where apparently a hitman shot him in the head and in the knee, causing his death.

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