Pablo Escobar’s son says his father took his own life, but the drug kingpin’s last moments were covered up by Colombian authorities. Shot in the shoulder and leg and surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Escobar, cornered on the roof of a Medellin safe house, put his own Sig Sauer pistol to the right side of his head and pulled the trigger, his son says.
Juan Pablo Escobar says his father took his own life, but the drug kingpin’s last moments were covered up by Colombian authorities.Shot in the shoulder and leg and surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, Escobar, cornered on the roof of a Medellin safe house, put his own Sig Sauer pistol to the right side of his head and pulled the trigger, his son says.
“My father always told me that he had 15 bullets in his pistol; 14 were for his enemies and the last one for him,” he says.
The world never knew of this suicidal last stand on Dec. 3, 1993 because the coroner was ordered not to contradict the official version of events — that heroic Colombian forces cut down the world’s mightiest cocaine trafficker, Escobar tells The Post.
“It’s not a theory,” Escobar insists. “Forensic investigators who performed the autopsy told us it was suicide but that they were threatened by the authorities not to disclose the truth in their final report.”
Escobar, the Medellin cartel chief’s only son, was 17 when his father died. He is now a 39-year-old architect living in Argentina.