Ex world Champion boxer killed in botched kidnapping

Kidnapping is a preferred method of criminal activity in many Central and South American Countries.  The targeting of high net worth individuals is particularly prevalent by the criminal underworld.
The below just goes to show you can be who you like on the mat or in the ring, you can be a UFC or K1 heavyweight champion, it doesn't really matter how good you are, if you have a lot of money you will be a target. If you have no CP around you and no SD knowledge, you are going to get hit like any other person with money.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Former world champion boxer Antonio Cermeno was kidnapped and killed in his native Venezuela, police said Tuesday.
Cermeno, a WBA super bantamweight and featherweight champion in the 1990s, was found shot to death Tuesday on a road in the central state of Miranda, local police chief Eliseo Guzman said.
Guzman said Cermeno and other relatives were kidnapped Monday night near the La Urbina neighborhood in east Caracas. The relatives escaped when the kidnappers stopped to refuel the car, but the former boxer remained captive, Guzman said.
Cermeno, 44, retired in 2006 with a 45-7 record.
His slaying comes on the heels of the killing of popular soap-opera actress and former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear in early January. Robbers killed the 29-year-old and her former husband, Thomas Henry Berry, 39, on an isolated stretch of highway while the couple was returning to the capital by car with their 5-year-old daughter.
The high-profile slayings highlight spiraling violent crime in Venezuela, which is one of the spurs to opposition protests that have rocked the South American country in recent weeks. The United Nations ranks Venezuela’s homicide rate as the fifth highest in the world.

I wonder why the kidnappers are killing the hostages almost straight away? Surely the aim of the crime is to extort money from relatives for the safe return of the hostage! Maybe these examples are when the hostage had previously declined `protection` from the gangs and paid the ultimate price.

Good thinking Sabre.
The gangs may have "asked" these people to pay them money in order to be under their protection….

The killings then set the standard and example for the following powerful people who may try and decline the offer.