A Dominican has been shot and killed in Colombia, media reports from the Spanish-speaking South American country has indicated.
He has been identified as Waldron Shillingford, 39, also known as Boffa.
Media reports indicate that he was killed on Friday afternoon at around 2:00 in the rural area of Riohacha, which is the capital of the La Guajira department.
The reports say that residents of the Mounte Verde community, near where the shooting took place, heard several loud explosions and Shillingford was later found on the side of a highway that leads from Riohacha to the township of La Florida.
The police were alerted and the body removed while an investigation into the motive of the incident was started.
It is unknown how long Shillingford had been in Colombia and what he was doing there.
Many Dominicans have take to social media to express shock at Shillingford’s untimely demise.
“This is unbelievable,” one person wrote on Facebook.
“Say this isn’t true. Not Waldron. Omg.,” another wrote.