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410:(.45 ACP caliber) through the window, hitting him multiple times. Lara was killed instantly, but the driver was left unharmed. Lara was transferred to another car and taken to the Shaio Clinic where he was declared dead minutes after his arrival. His bodyguards shot and killed Ivan Dario Guisado, but Byron Velasquez was arrested and was paroled on October 15, 1995. Within a few days of Lara’s assassination,
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