A professional footballer has told how he survived an assassination attempt, claiming one of his team’s own fans shot at him at point blank range.
Deportivo Cali player Juan Sebastian Quintero was attacked on his way back from a game and the failed assassination attempt was taken out by a man wearing a tracksuit of the player’s team.
The Colombian , who plays for Deportivo Cali, said a man approached his car, pointed a gun at him and said: “I killed you, son of a b*tch”.
Quintero, 23, told reporters: “I was getting to my flat when I felt someone knocking on my window and the person with the gun was there ready to shoot me.
“It took me two or three seconds to react and I accelerated.
“He just knocked on the window, pointed the gun at me and said, ‘I killed you, son of a b*tch’.
“The only thing I saw was a Deportivo Cali tracksuit. Who did it and what happened are being investigated.
“The shot hit the door and my brother and I got away unharmed, luckily.
“These things cannot happen in football. Making an attempt on someone’s life, people with family, mothers, fathers and for some of my teammates, children.”
A photo shows the bullet hole in Quintero’s Porsche SUV.