Amateur soccer player charged with attempted homicide found dead in apparent suicide after referee assault

A participant from an amateur soccer league in Buenos Aires was discovered lifeless with a gunshot wound to his head shortly after being charged with tried murder for a violent assault towards a referee throughout a match final weekend.

Buenos Aires police stated Tuesday that the physique of 24-year-old Williams Alexander Tapón was discovered close to a practice station, just a few blocks away from his residence in a suburb south of the Argentine capital.

Tapón gained an surprising stage of notoriety on Monday when a video of the brutal assault of referee Cristian Ariel Paniagua went viral on social media. The incident occurred Saturday throughout a soccer match between La Cortada, Tapón’s group, and El Rejunte in an beginner match.

The participant knocked the referee down with a punch and, whereas he was on the bottom, kicked him within the head, rendering him unconscious. The referee was taken to the hospital within the suburb of Avellaneda.

After the sufferer filed a grievance, Avellaneda prosecutors charged Tapón with “aggravated attempted homicide with premeditation within the context of a sporting occasion,” a criminal offense that carries a penalty of 10 to fifteen years in jail, in response to the prosecutorial paperwork.

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An beginner soccer league participant in Buenos Aires was discovered lifeless with a gunshot wound after going through tried murder costs for a referee assault

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The police didn’t affirm the reason for demise however Tapón’s widow, who solely recognized herself as Agustina, was quoted as saying in media shops that he died by presumed suicide, citing an audio message she had obtained from him.

“Within the audio message he despatched me saying goodbye, he advised me, ‘Maintain our youngsters’ and ‘I favor that everybody undergo without delay moderately than seeing me undergo every single day in jail,’” she advised native information channel Crónica. “These have been his final phrases earlier than doing what he did.”

Tapón was the daddy of a seven-month-old and a 2-year-old.

Sports activities safety authorities had been considering banning him for life from attending sporting occasions.

“The reality is that I used to be in a foul state, I admit it. It was these 5 minutes once I couldn’t management myself, and I reacted that method towards the referee,” Tapón stated in an interview he gave to Canal 9 in Buenos Aires on Monday, hours earlier than he was discovered lifeless. “The one clarification I can provide is that I used to be indignant. The referee didn’t assist; from the start, he was making all of the calls of their favor.”