The King of Cocaine.

The death

Sixteen months after his escape from La Catedral, Pablo Escobar died in a shootout on 2 December 1993, amid another of his attempts to elude the Search Bloc.[ A Colombian electronic surveillance team, led by Brigadier Hugo Martínez,[unreliable source?] used radio trilateration technology to track his cell phone transmissions and found him hiding in Los Olivos, a middle-class barrio in Medellín. The search bloc of eight men raided the house by blowing the door open and pursuing him as he ran to the roof and tried to escape them, as well as engaging in the ensuing firefight with Escobar and his bodyguard, Álvaro de Jesús Agudelo (alias "El Limón"). The two fugitives attempted to escape by running across the roofs of adjoining houses to reach a back street, but both were shot and killed by Colombian National Police] Escobar suffered gunshots to the leg and torso, and a fatal gunshot into his ear canal.

It has never been proven who actually fired the final shot into his ear, nor has it been determined whether this shot was made during the gunfight or as part of a possible execution, with wide speculation remaining regarding this subject. Some of Escobar's relatives believe that he committed suicide. His two brothers, Roberto Escobar and Fernando Sánchez Arellano, believe that he shot himself through the ear. In a statement regarding the topic, the duo stated that Pablo "had committed suicide, he did not get killed. During all the years they went after him, he would say to me every day that if he was really cornered without a way out, he would 'shoot himself through the ear'."