Bolivian General Gary Prado Salmón, who captured Argentine guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara in 1967, died Saturday at the age of 84 in the city of Santa Cruz, his son reported on social media.

“The Lord has just called my father Gral Div SP Gary Augusto Prado Salmón to his kingdom. He left with his wife and children. He leaves us a legacy of love, honesty, and courage. He was an extraordinary person,” his son Gary Prado Araúz wrote on his Facebook account.

Since mid-April, Prado Salmón suffered from health complications and was hospitalized, for which the son thanked all the people who supported his family “in this time of his pain” in his message.

General Gary Prado Salmón commanded a patrol in southwestern Bolivia on October 8, 1967 that ended with the arrest of then-wounded Argentine leftist revolutionary “Che” Guevara.

A day later, the Bolivian army complied with the order to execute Guevara.

That same year, the Bolivian Congress named Prado Salmón a national hero for defending what the Bolivian military government of General René Barrientos then considered a “subversive foreign invasion.”

In 1981, an accidental shot hit his spine and he ended up in a wheelchair. In 1988 he retired from the military career.

In an interview repeated by Bolivian duty, the soldier says he felt sorry when he saw the guerrilla. “Honestly, the man was sorry.”