Pasadena shooting: Traveling professor from Honduras murdered during home invasion

HOUSTON - A traveling professor from Honduras is dead, after being gunned down during a home invasion. 

Pasadena authorities are asking for any information on the identity of three suspects in relation to a murder, two of which forced entry into an apartment on Garner Road and killed 43-year-old Nahun Diaz Sorto on Wednesday.

Around 2:15 p.m., Pasadena police officers arrived at the apartment and found Sorto bleeding from his upper torso.

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Officials on the scene provided CPR and he was taken to INCA Southeast Hospital where he later died from his injuries.

Yasmine, a neighbor, says she saw and heard a lot of the crime.

"It hurt me that people would do that," she said. I was just like very, very scared."

She and her family live in the apartment above where the killing happened.

"We are Christians, we believe in god, we go to church," she said. "I never thought that would happen in our apartments."

She says her parents went down and spoke to neighbors who explained who the victim was. "That's when they got the information that the guy was a teacher in Honduras ‘cause he was visiting."

FOX 26 reached out to the Instituto Ángel G. Hernández, who confirmed that Sorto is a beloved math teacher who was traveling to Houston to visit. They say he was only there a few days when this tragedy happened. 

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They say he was well-educated and very well-known in Aramecina Valle, his hometown

Pasadena authorities are unaware of the suspect's identity and asking the public for any information to help the investigation.

Anyone with information or video surveillance is asked to contact Detective C. MacGregor at 713-475-7891 or Detective Mascorro at 713-475-4978.