Editing Assassination of Marvin Gaviria (section)

==Assassination==
On September 29th, 1972, President Gaviria stood in front of a large crowd on the stairs of [[Congressional Hall (Zamastan)|Congressional Hall]] in [[Tofino]], to give an inaugural celebration speech. About 0.9 miles northwest of Congressional Hall and across [[Gaviria Park]] (at the time, known as Capitol Park), three men had arrived at an under-construction 50-story skyscraper. Two of the men were Shuellian mercenaries, and one was a Lauchenoirian observer. One Shuellian and the Lauchenoirian climbed the interior of the building to the forty-third floor. One of the men was carrying a heavy-sniper rifle, but the Z.I.S. is not sure which one fired the fatal shot. Constructing a sniper nest in haste with bricks, nylon covering, and wooden planking, the sniper team would have had to calculate wind, distance, and the arc of the bullet path in order to hit Gaviria, nearly a mile away in a large crowd. 

At roughly 2:12 PM, the sniper fired a single bullet. As he addressed the crowd nearly three minutes into his speech, Marvin grabbed his chest, buckled forward to the podium, and collapsed to the stage. Seconds later, the bang of a sniper rifle bore through the air and the crowd began to scatter. As paramedics and witnesses tended to the President, they soon realized that he had been killed at the moment he was hit with the bullet. A large, inch and a half circumference hole had ripped through Gaviria's upper chest and exited out his middle-back near the bottom of his shoulder blade. 

Around an hour later, authorities found the sniper’s nest on the forty-third floor of the construction site. Security footage captured someone leaving the scene with the gun, but the perpetrator was never identified, the rifle was never recovered, and the case was never solved. It remained the greatest mystery of Zamastan history until 2019 when the perpetrators were identified from newly discovered tapes and eye-witness testimony from the construction site and people who were in Gaviria Park between the Congressional Hall and skyscraper. 

===Aftermath in Zian Square===