I looked for more information on the 13-year-old lad murdered last week and found a story online that must surely be based on the same incident I saw reported on the television news but with a different twist.

Online, the story was of a gang war and the 13-year-old – a model student and athlete – picked out and murdered in a case of mistaken identity.

As is so often the case in Colombia, it’s very hard if not impossible to get to the facts.

So I don’t know if he died heroically resisting pressure to join a gang or unwittingly took the place of someone else, deemed to be an enemy by a rival gang.

Either way, he shouldn’t have died.