Career
Ríos was killed by his security chief, Pablo Montoya, on 3 March 2008 in a mountainous area of the western department of Caldas. Colombian military forces were involved in an operation to capture Ríos, when a FARC member named as "Rojas", on 6 March 2008, delivered a severed right hand, a laptop computer and an Idaho to the troops. "Rojas" claimed that they belonged to Ríos, whom he described as his boss.
Pablo Montoya claimed to have killed Ríos three days earlier.
Fingerprint results proved that the hand did belong to Ríos, resulting in Colombian authorities going to recover the body.
