FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2019. record photo, Alex Quinez, of Ecuador, gestures aft a men's 200 metre vigor astatine the World Athletics Championships successful Doha, Qatar. Olympic sprinter Alex Quinez was fatally changeable successful the larboard metropolis of Guayaquil successful Ecuador connected Friday night, Oct. 22, 2021, constabulary said. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2019. record photo, Alex Quinez, of Ecuador, gestures aft a men's 200 metre vigor astatine the World Athletics Championships successful Doha, Qatar. Olympic sprinter Alex Quinez was fatally changeable successful the larboard metropolis of Guayaquil successful Ecuador connected Friday night, Oct. 22, 2021, constabulary said. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

GUAYAQUIL – Ecuadorian sprinter Alex Quiñónez was fatally changeable successful the larboard metropolis of Guayaquil, constabulary said Saturday.

Quiñónez, who was 32, became a nationalist leader successful 2012 erstwhile helium reached the 200 metre last astatine the London Games, finishing seventh successful a contention won by Usain Bolt.

Guayaquil-based paper El Universo reported that Quiñónez was fatally changeable connected a thoroughfare successful the northwest conception of the metropolis astir 9:20 p.m. Friday and that different antheral was besides killed.

There were nary contiguous study of arrests.

Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso vowed successful a connection connected Saturday that the slaying “will not spell unpunished."

Quiñónez's decease was besides confirmed by the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee Olympic Committee successful a connection connected Saturday. It said the circumstances of his decease “have not yet been clarified.”

Quiñónez won bronze successful the 200 astatine the 2019 satellite title successful Doha.

Andrea Sotomayor, the caput wide of the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee, expressed her sorrow and outrage connected Twitter, decrying “so overmuch evil."

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“I don't person words to explicit the sadness, helplessness and indignation that is overwhelming me,” wrote Sotomayor, who was formerly Minister of Sport. “Álex Quiñónez was the synonym of humility and a wide illustration of resilience. His nonaccomplishment leaves america with symptom successful our chests.”

Guayaquil and different parts of Ecuador person been struggling with precocious levels of crime. This month, Lasso decreed a authorities of exigency to face cause trafficking and different crimes successful Ecuador, saying the subject and constabulary volition instrumentality to the streets to supply security.

This year, determination person been revolts successful the country’s prisons owed to cause violence, particularly successful Guayaquil, which person ended successful massacres by inmates of rival gangs linked to Mexican cause cartels. About 230 radical person been killed successful those compounds.

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