Venezuelan musical producer Libero Laizzo, manager of the rock group Caramelos de Cianuro (Cyanide Candy), was found dead on a Caracas highway after being kidnapped earlier this week, the private TV channel Globovision said.

The producer, 35, whose body was found Friday, was shot in the chest, apparently because “he might have recognized one of his kidnappers,” the Globovision news anchor said, a speculation later posted to the channel’s online edition.