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Courtney Weatherburne reporting
Every night Alvaro Aldana would have a smoke on this cement platform, right in front his house. It was a habit he just couldn't break. But there will be no more draws of nicotine nor puffs of smoke in the air.

That's because Aldana was executed last night in this overgrown park, behind PK restaurant.

Around 11:30 last night, Aldana's wife wasn't feeling well and they both went out to get a cab to go to the hospital. But Aldana had to stop off at his mother's house. Aldana and his wife took the shortcut through the park to get to his mother's house. A man emerged from the darkness and opened fire.

Voice of: Shelee Lemus - Wife of Deceased
"When we were walking, I heard a gunshot and then he said run, so I start running and then while running I heard other gunshots and then I heard a scream from him, then I heard more shots and he screamed like 2 more times and by the time I was really far I was at the highway running, screaming, someone help me please."

She waved down a taxi man that was passing by and went over to her mother in law's house. She quickly called the police.

Shelee Lemus - Wife of Deceased
"By the time we arrived the police were already there searching, but they haven't reached where his body was. So while we were searching we divided ourselves and we called out Alvaro, screaming for him. We called him Avi, we called out Avi where are you and then my brother-in-law said, here he is and when he said he was here, I thought the worst, because I didn't hear anything about him. When I saw him, he was lying flat face down."

Aldana was stabbed to the back and shot to the left side of his body and face. LEMUS says she doesn't know who would want to kill Aldana so ruthlessly.

Shelee Lemus - Wife of Deceased
"It's confusing for me, but if they had shot him on the head why would you stab him afterwards that doesn't make sense. So I'm here wondering."

Courtney Weatherburne, 7News
"Did he tell you about anyone wanting to harm him or anyone wanting a hit on him or something like that for them to shoot and stab him, kill him in this manner?"

Shelee Lemus - Wife of Deceased
"No, not that I know."

Courtney Weatherburne, 7News
"Do you think that this was planned hit on him or he wasn't the target?"

Shelee Lemus - Wife of Deceased
"I don't know what really happened, but if he was to be a target, no one knew that he was going down, so probably it was a crazy person maybe on heavy drugs or using a lot of alcohol, God knows or he just got crazy and saw us coming start shooting."

While on the surface the family grapples with all these questions, they have to confront the deep wound of Aldana's murder.

Shelee Lemus - Wife of Deceased
"Here everybody here loves him, everybody here is my family, everybody loves, appreciates him because he was loved I would say. If he had, everybody has, he was a great dad, a great father. He loved us very much. He loved us very much that's one thing I could say. He loved me very much and he will always be missed."

As you heard, Lemus told us she isn't sure of any recent issues Aldana had with anyone but he had a the reputation of trouble maker in his past.

Aldana leaves behind a 3 year old son.