Tracked down by a joint US/Colombian task force, Escobar was spotted talking on a telephone standing by a window on the second floor of a house by an officer passing by in a truck who was tracing the very phone call Escobar was making. Police burst through the front door of the house, killing his bodyguards, and Escobar attempted to
escape by climbing up on the roof of his house. A police captain saw him, ordered him to halt, then shot and killed him when
he didn't (the officer's identity has never been made public). After he was killed the officers in the unit trimmed his mustache--the normally clean-shaven Escobar had grown a thick, bushy mustache and a beard to disguise his identity--to make him look like
Adolf Hitler, then gleefully posed for pictures with his dead, bloody body.
