MEXICO CITY — A 24-year-old fan who was shot outside a stadium in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana after a league match between Chivas and Xolos has died in a hospital, authorities confirmed Saturday.
Prior to the end of the second round match of the Mexican Apertura this Friday, a brawl broke out between fans of both teams in the stands of the Caliente stadium in Tijuana.
Several videos are circulating on social media of a fan wearing a black shirt of the local team Xolos fighting inside the stadium and then the same man appears in another image, lying on the ground and bleeding in the parking lot.
The Attorney General's Office of the northwestern state of Baja California, where Tijuana is located, reported in a statement on Saturday that the 24-year-old man was found wounded at entrance 3 of the stadium and that the attacker fled.
The man suffered gunshot wounds to the back, arm and head and was taken by ambulance to a Mexican Social Security Institute hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Liga MX on Saturday condemned the violence and said it will cooperate with authorities, while the Disciplinary Commission of the Mexican Football Federation said it will open an investigation and fine the club if necessary.
The death of the fan is yet another instance of violence in Liga MX. Last January, a Monterrey fan died after being run over by a truck driven by Santos Laguna fans outside the TSM stadium in Torreón, in the north of the country, after a match between the two teams.
In March 2022, fans of Querétaro and Atlas clashed inside the Corregidora stadium and 26 people were injured.
The match for the second round of the Apertura tournament ended with a 4-2 victory for Xolos over Chivas.
