Salvador Cabanas, 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 underwent surgery in which doctors failed to remove a bullet lodged in his skull. Dr. Ernesto Martinez, who was part of the surgical team, said "we cannot guarantee that his life is out of danger." He called the player's condition stable
"Injuries like this are unpredictable," Martinez added. "We don't know what kind aftereffects he might have -- perhaps none, or perhaps there will be many. We don't know right now."
Mexico City Attorney General Miguel Angel Mancera visited the popular nightspot "Bar Bar" and said from the
crime scene robbery did not appear a motive "because nothing was taken."
Mancera later said a suspect had been identified from surveillance videos as a man with an accent from the northern state of Sinaloa -- long considered the cradle of Mexico's drug lords -- who traveled with at least one bodyguard.
However, Mancera said that as of yet "there is no indication of organized crime," a term Mexican officials use to refer to drug cartels.
Mancera said the suspect was known by the nickname "J.J." or "El Modelo" ("The Model") and was being sought. He said one of the suspect's associates was seen talking to a Cuban woman who worked at the club, and one possible motive was "there could have been some kind of trouble" over the woman. Cabanas was in the bar with his wife.
He said a cleaning employee said there had been "an argument, a strong exchange of words" between two men in the bathroom before a shot was fired.
The videos showed that club employees did not attempt to stop the suspects as they hurriedly left the bar and got in a car.
Source: Associated Press
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