Strange happenings in Copan Ruinas

We heard this story made international news but we're not sure.
It was the beginning of December, Amy and I went for a walk. We strolled down to the town square to find lots of people, a stage, chairs and people on the stage with a microphone. We sat down thinking there was a show about to begin, but after a little while we realized that there were two lines of people extending out from either end of the stage and nothing was happening, and then we noticed people were stacking the chairs. We decided to leave and figured we had missed the show. A while later we heard out that the President of Honduras was handing out money to the poor. We were disappointed as we thought we had missed seeing the president, then later we were told that it was a representative of the president who was handing out the money. So, we went on our merry way and didn't think much more of it until I went on a guys night out the following evening. We were walking to the German Pub, yes German. This German guy just recently opened his own pub and brews his own beer. It,s great and we are all very thankful to him for the supply of good hearty beer. As we were walking to the pub a couple of the guys started talking about a shooting, and of course we were all intrigued. What! What happened!? As it turned out, right after Amy and I left the square the night that night there was an assassination about 3 blocks away.

The Honduran government representative for Copan County was driving up toward the town square. He had his two children in the vehicle with him, of which attend the school we are working at. Now, The roads in town are narrow and barely wide enough for two cars and are always pretty congested with both vehicles and pedestrians. According to the stories we heard, as he was driving up the road another vehicle drove up beside his car and started blasting away. He managed to turn his car toward the store fronts and in an attempt to divert gunfire away from his kids jumped out of the car and ran into one of the shops where he was followed and killed. Now we have been told that this kind of thing is very very rare hear in the Copan area. Things like this don't happen here. It turns out that this guy was dirty. Evidently it was well known he was involved in drugs. I was also told that sometime in the past he had raped and beat up a couple of teenage girls, but of course he was untouchable. So we have heard that it was a drug ring assassination and supposedly there are many people in town who aren't a bit sorry. The next day we heard that the director of our school was pulled over that night by the police with guns drawn and the whole works. The assassins were driving a red car and she drives a red car. She was not very happy. Strange happenings in Copan Ruinas.