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Soccer coach’s alleged killer finally nabbed after gunfight in Mexico

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Orlando Orea. Office of the Attorney General of Mexico

A Queens man who spent nearly six years on the lam has finally been nabbed in the fatal slashing of a New York Red Bulls youth coach – following a shootout with Mexican federal agents, officials said.

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Orlando Orea, 38, was busted Thursday in the central state of Puebla, a day after he shot and killed a pair of detectives who were trying to serve a provisional extradition warrant, according to Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office.