A drunk reveller has shot a DJ dead when he refused to play his song request, it has emerged.
Horrifying accounts have emerged of a shooting in Guatemala which left a 35-year-old DJ and teacher Edwin Villafuerte dead.
The tragic shooting of a loved DJ known as DJ Pollito took place during a traditional Guatemalan festival on May 16, in honour of Saint Isidore the Labourer in the village of San Isidro.
According to local media, the murderer requested a song from the DJ, who told him the celebrations were over.
Edwin then explained he had to pack away his equipment, and so the man walked away.
But the man then returned and waited for him outside the room, apparently angry at not having his song request played, without saying a word shot him at close range with multiple bullets.
The 35-year-old DJ was also a primary school teacher and described as "much loved" by those who knew him.
On Tuesday his family and friends held a funeral in his native town of Olopa, near Chiquimula.
His sister wrote on social media: "My whole life, I know you are in a better place now. Diosito wanted to take you with him, but here we will miss you a lot.
"This is not a goodbye but a see you soon brother of my heart. He flies high champion. You will always be my greatest pride."
According to local media, the annual festival regularly ends with killings and San Isidro residents denounced the lack of security and the sale of alcohol at the celebration.
Guatemala is ravaged by murders with the number in 2009 amounting to 45 for every 100,000 inhabitants. By comparison, in the United States, it was 7.8.
On Tuesday, Guatemala’s controversial attorney general, Maria Consuelo Porras, commenced her second term. The appointment sparked widespread denunciation as many have accused her of playing a role in dismantling anti-corruption efforts and judicial independence. Many murders in Guatemala go unprosecuted.
Edie Cux, legal director at the Guatemalan chapter of Transparency International, told Al Jazeera that Guatemala is entering an authoritarian period.
He said the appointment of Porras generates not only a "crisis of the justice system but also a crisis in general in the country."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also condemned the move.
He said in a statement: “During her tenure, Porras repeatedly obstructed and undermined anti-corruption investigations in Guatemala to protect her political allies and gain undue political favour."
The Department of State put Porras on a list of Corrupt and Undemocratic Actors last year after she fired Juan Francisco Sandoval, the celebrated Special Anti-Impunity Prosecutor who specialised in high-level corruption.
The local authorities have confirmed that they are investigating Edwin's shooting, but no arrests have been made yet.
