U.S. Businessman Shot to Death in Honduras
An American businessman who spent two years in jail for killing a Honduran in a land dispute was shot and killed Friday morning while jogging in a Tegucigalpa suburb, Honduran police sources said.
Leo Edgar Mills, 63, who was from Oklahoma and had lived in Honduras since the 1950s, was shot once in the back of the head with a 9-millimeter bullet, they said.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman confirmed that Mills was killed but gave no other details.
Shortly after the killing, two local radio stations reported receiving a telephone call from a woman claiming to represent the Patriotic Morazanista Front, a little-known Maoist guerrilla group that analysts said was active earlier in this decade.
Mills, who was married and had four children, owned a local stable and land near the city.
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