{"id":2549,"date":"2025-04-22T05:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T05:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2025-04-23T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:55:34","slug":"british-man-shot-dead-in-costa-del-sol-by-gunman-who-fled-in-getaway-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/british-man-shot-dead-in-costa-del-sol-by-gunman-who-fled-in-getaway-car\/","title":{"rendered":"British man shot dead in Costa del Sol by gunman who fled in getaway car"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The murder happened around 8.15pm on Monday evening in the popular British holiday resort of Calahonda between Marbella and Fuengirola (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A man believed to be British has been killed in a Costa del Sol street shooting.<\/p>\n

Police were last night hunting the killer, believed to have fled the crime<\/a> scene in a getaway car later found torched nearby.<\/p>\n

The murder happened around 8.15pm on Monday evening in the popular British holiday resort of Calahonda between Marbella and Fuengirola.<\/p>\n

The victim was already dead by the time police and paramedics reached the scene.<\/p>\n

Locals told cops they had heard between eight and ten shots being fired.<\/p>\n

The incident has been described as a gunfight.<\/p>\n

A Cupra vehicle with foreign number plates was found burned out nearby shortly afterwards. Insiders said weapons had been found inside.<\/p>\n

Investigators are working on the theory it was the getaway car and was set on fire by the assassin and possible accomplices.<\/p>\n

Police have not yet officially confirmed the nationality of the victim, partly because the post-mortem has not taken place.<\/p>\n

But well-placed sources close to the ongoing investigation described him last night as British and said they were working on the basis he was a 30-year-old man from Liverpool<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0murder is being investigated by the Guardia Civil police force.<\/p>\n

Last week a 34-year-old man was rushed to the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella after being shot outside a nightclub in the famous Costa del Sol resort.<\/p>\n

The incident happened around 4.30am on Good Friday.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said the suspect fled the scene in a getaway vehicle.<\/p>\n

The victim was hospitalized after suffering a gunshot wound to the shoulder.<\/p>\n

No arrests are yet believed to have taken place.<\/p>\n

A Brit expat wrote on social media shortly after it happened, assuming it occurred at Club del Sol although police have not said yet exactly where in the street it\u00a0happened: \u2018Anyone know what happened at Club del Sol?<\/p>\n

\u2018Heard gunshot-like sounds then lots of police.\u2019<\/p>\n

Another Brit answered: \u2018Apparently a guy was shot seven times. Police lockdown.\u2019<\/p>\n

A third Facebook user writing on a local expat site said: \u2018It happened on the slip road down towards Finca Naundrup outside Club del Sol.<\/p>\n

\u2018My son was at the football pitch from 8pm when I dropped him off and is finally\u00a0home now.\u2019<\/p>\n

He added of the lockdown late Monday evening: \u2018No-one is allowed to leave there yet. Police still there.\u2019<\/p>\n

A Scottish expat added: \u2018I was playing padel at Finca Naundrup earlier. Glad I missed it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

For more stories like this, <\/strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The murder happened around 8.15pm on Monday evening in the popular British holiday resort of Calahonda between Marbella and Fuengirola (Picture: Getty Images) A man believed to be British has been killed in a Costa del Sol street shooting. Police were last night hunting the killer, believed to have fled the crime scene in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}