Man seen in standoff video slain in hospital

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
Article Launched:12/15/2006 12:00:00 AM MST

A man who narrowly survived a street shooting in Juárez only to be followed by his attackers inside a hospital and killed Tuesday was one of the men who was videotaped unloading drugs from a crashed SUV during a standoff in Hudspeth County in January.

César Alonso Gándara Reyes, 30, was first shot at Tuesday afternoon when he was in a gold 1984 GMC pickup in a neighborhood near the Zaragoza Bridge, Juárez police said. He was taken to the Clínica Zaragoza on Ramón Rayón Street by someone who quickly left the hospital, they said.

While Gándara was on a gurney and being treated for his wounds, a group of men pretending to be police officers shot him. An autopsy determined he died of gunshot wounds to the head, chest and stomach, and investigators said they found more than 10 shell casings at the hospital.