The 14-year old died during a protest over the country’s growing economic crisis.
"Roa died amid violent clashes between protesters and police near the home of Tachira's ruling party governor after a police officer shot at the ground [...] though it was unclear whether he had died from a bullet wound," Colonel Ramon Cabezas, head of citizen security for the state of Tachira, said, Reuters reported.
Roa died of his injuries on the way to the hospital, San Cristobal Human Rights Commission President Jose Vicente Garcia told the Associated Press, which reported Roa's wounds as being caused by a gunshot wound.
This video from the protest shows the teenager laying on the ground. The crowd begins advancing on the police in the area, before officers begin firing rounds and setting off gas canisters.
As the New York Times puts it, Venezuela is in the midst of a "tremendous currency devaluation" and has a "crumbling economy expected to contract 7 percent this year as oil income plunges and price controls produce acute shortages of items including milk, detergent and condoms."
That has lead to the resurgence of the protests that have waxed and waned since President Nicolás Maduro came to office following the death of long-time ruler Hugo Chavez.
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