Former world skating champion Luz Mery Tristán, 60, shot useless by fiancé at her in condominium in Colombia

A former world skating champion was allegedly shot useless by her fiancé at her condominium in Colombia.

Luz Mery Tristán, 60, was discovered useless Saturday at her residence after the Cali Metropolitan Police responded to studies of a home dispute.

Cops arrested her boyfriend, Andrés Ricci, 58, who was holding the weapon he used to shoot Tristán, a mom of 5.

Authorities stated that Ricci was beneath the affect of alcohol on the time of the apprehension. He suffered a cardiovascular ailment and was rushed to a neighborhood medical facility, the place he stays hospitalized.

Ricci admitted to killing Tristán throughout a digital listening to Sunday.

Andrés Ricci (left) appeared in a digital listening to from his hospital mattress Sunday and advised a Cali choose that he had killed his fiancé, Luz Mery Tristán (proper)

Luz Mery Tristán is credited for taking the game of velocity skating to a different degree in Colombia

He’s going through as soon as rely of aggravated feminicide and three different counts, together with trafficking and unlawful possession of a firearm.

Police searched Tristán’s house and confiscated six weapons belonging to Ricci. It is unknown if he was residing with Tristán, who he was set to marry in October.

Tristán reached fame in 1990 when she grew to become the primary Colombian to win a gold medal within the 5,000-meter competitors on the Inline Velocity Skating World Championships in Bello, Colombia.

She additionally gained gold within the 5,000-meter occasion and bronze within the relay race on the 1987 Pan American Video games in Indianapolis, Indiana. Previous to that she was a part of a group that competed on the 1986 Tour de France.

Often called the ‘gold wheel pioneer,’ Tristán is credited with the success that future skaters would expertise, profitable 19 worldwide titles.

Luz Mery Tristán, who grew to become the primary Colombian to win a gold medal on the 1990 Inline Velocity Skating World Championships, was reportedly shot useless by her fiancé, Andrés Ricci, at her house in Cali, Colombia

Andrés Ricci was arrested Saturday on the house of his fiancé, Luz Mery Tristán, after he allegedly shot her useless following an argument. The couple had a marriage scheduled to happen in October

Luz Mery Tristán grew to become Colombia’s first gold medal winner on the Inline Velocity Skating World Championships, which have been held in Bello, Colombia in 1990

Luz Mery Tristán together with her 5 kids from her earlier relationship with Joaquín Valencia, a drug lord who’s serving 40 years in a U.S. jail

In 2006, she opened the Luz Mery Tristán Sports activities Heart, the place future skating champions Daniela Mendoza, Rommy Muñoz, Sebastián Garcés and Johana Viveros have been skilled.

Elías del Valle known as Tristán ‘an icon of Colombian skating.’ 

‘She opened the doorways of world skating and advised Colombian skaters that it was doable to win gold medals, that it was doable to succeed in the world skating elite and that Colombia had expertise,’ he stated. 

A member of the family advised El País newspaper that they hope that Tristán’s legacy just isn’t missed by the incident.

‘I would really like her to be remembered for every thing she did for sports activities in Colombia. I ask you to honor her,’ the stated.

Colombian drug lord, Joaquín Valencia (heart), a former Cali Cartel high-ranking chief, was married to Luz Mery Tristán. The couple had 5 kids. Valencia is presently serving a 40-year sentence in a United States jail

Joaquín Valencia, a former Cali Cartel chief, along with his Luz Mery Tristán

Tristán was previously married to Colombian drug lord, Joaquín Valencia, with who she had 5 kids. 

Valencia was extradited from his native Colombia to Florida in 2004. 

Valencia was convicted for drug trafficking and cash laundering in 2007 by a federal courtroom for the Center District of Florida. 

He was sentenced to 40 years and ordered to give up $110 million.

Witnesses recognized Valencia because the successor of the Orejuela brothers, who based the Cali Cartel, and stated he shipped extra that 100 tons of cocaine between the early Nineties and January 2003, when he was arrested in Bogotá.