Police kill youth player Lucas Gonzalez in Argentina

Barracas Central football player Lucas Gonzalez has died after having been shot in the head by at least one policeman in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The 17-year-old and a group of his friends were driving a Volkswagen Suran car on their way back home from training, when policemen began shooting at them. Lucas' mother, Cintia Lopez, explained her version of what happened in the incident.

"Lucas left the Barracas team training with four more teammates," she told Radio Con Vos.

"They were going to a trial because the club were looking for boys: there was a trial for his age group.

"Although he was already at the club for a few years, he accompanied his friends who are from Florencio Varela.

"When they left training, they stopped to buy a game on the way back because even the lady at the kiosk told us that they stopped, that they looked good, happy, that they had been listening to music.

"As far as we know, they were stopped by a car with four policemen. One of the boys' parents told us that they thought they were going to assault them, they sped up and they shot my son.

"Lucas is not well, the damage is irreversible, the doctors can no longer do anything, my son is in God's hands. The only thing that can save him is a miracle, he is a kid that gets up early every day to go train, come back, take a nap and then go to school in the afternoon.

"He changed his shift for the night one so he could go to train. The truth is that they have destroyed my life. I want those who did that to pay for it."