Sadly, It Would Appear As Though The Deaths Of Luis Valbuena And Jose Castillo Were No Accident
In what was already a sad and tragic story, waking up on Friday morning to hear that both Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo had been killed in a fatal car accident in Venezuela, it would seem as though their deaths were no accident. This appears to have been a deliberate act. Sadly, if these reports are true, this was murder.
Valbuena, Castillo and former major league player Carlos Rivero were traveling from Caracas to Barquisimeto, where the Cardenales are based, when their car struck a rock and veered off the road, according to BeisbolPlay.com. Rivero and the car’s driver survived, the report said, but Castillo and Valbuena were ejected from the vehicle and died. Neither was wearing a seat belt.
Authorities said the players may have been the intended victims of criminals in Venezuela who throw rocks onto roadways to disable cars or cause crashes and then rob the vehicles’ occupants. Four suspects found with Valbuena’s and Castillo’s personal belongings were arrested by police, state governor Julio León Heredia wrote on Twitter.
Fuck these people. You have two baseball players who wear their pride for Venezuela on their sleeves, and they’re dead now for what? Some jewelry and some spare cash? It’s disturbing to note that this is not an uncommon act, either. When the Royals’ Yordano Ventura was killed in a car accident in January of 2017, there were reports, which were later proven to be false, that he had been robbed at the scene of his fatal crash in the Dominican Republic. Although it was a false report in Ventura’s case, the fact that it was speculated in his case and apparently true in this case just goes to show how often stuff like this happens and it’s sickening.
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Rest in peace to Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo.