The latest victim, Heber López, director of the online news site NoticiasWeb, was fatally shot in the state of Oaxaca.
, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement. An official with the Oaxaca state security agency, who requested anonymity, confirmed that the victim was Heber López, director of the online news site NoticiasWeb.The Oaxaca state prosecutor's office said that two suspects in the killing were in custody and a gun had been recovered from them.
Relatives and friends attend the funeral of late Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado, who was killed in the northern border city of Tijuana, at a cemetery in Tijuana, Mexico, January 27, 2022.In the border city of Tijuana, crime photographer Margarito Martínez was gunned down outside his home January 17. On January 23, reporter Lourdes Maldonado López was found shot to death inside her car, also in Tijuana.
Jan-Albert Hootsen, Mexico representative of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said on Twitter:"The first six weeks of 2022 have been the deadliest for the Mexican press in over a decade."
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