Nicaragua Police Investigating Suspicious
Death of Managua Mayor
Managua - Nicaragua's
National Police (PN) are investigating the
suspicious death of Alexis Arguello, Managua
Mayor and a boxing great.
Media said he died in the early hours on
Wednesday of gunshot wounds to the chest.
He had been a rising star of the governing
Sandinista party, and authorities declared
three days of official mourning.
Assistant judicial police chief Glenda
Zavala confirmed Arguello shot himself with
a 9-mm pistol and was dead when relatives
got him to the hospital. The autopsy report
said the bullet hit the heart and left lung,
and concluded the probable cause was
suicide.
Arguello, who was elected mayor of
Nicaragua's capital last year, had spoken
publicly of his struggle with depression and
alcohol and drug use.
Nicknamed "The Explosive Thin Man," Arguello
retired from boxing in 1995 with a record of
82-8 with 65 knockouts and was a champion in
three weight divisions. He was inducted into
the International Boxing Hall of Fame in
1992.
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