In what year was Pablo Escobar killed?

Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993.

Escobar died on December 2, 1993, in Medellín, Colombia, one day after his 44th birthday. Colombian National Police forces located him in the Los Olivos neighborhood after tracing a telephone call to his family. A firefight followed as Escobar attempted to escape across rooftops.

His death marked the collapse of the Medellín Cartel as a dominant force in Colombia’s cocaine trade. Rival organizations, especially the Cali Cartel, gained influence afterward, although Escobar’s death did not end cocaine trafficking or Colombia’s wider drug conflict.

Accounts differ over who fired the fatal shot. Colombian authorities said he was killed during the operation, while members of Escobar’s family have maintained that he may have died by suicide. That dispute does not change the established year: 1993. The years 1992, 1994, and 1995 are therefore incorrect.