Mexico: Another journalist killed in Veracruz state
Source: Associated Press
Mexico: Another journalist killed in Veracruz state
Updated 4:44 pm, Thursday, July 21, 2016
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities said Thursday a local journalist was shot to death outside his home in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, the country's deadliest for reporters in recent years.
The state prosecutor's office said in a statement that 43-year-old Pedro Tamayo was gunned down by two attackers Wednesday night in the municipality of Tierra Blanca. Investigators recovered multiple 9 mm shells.
Authorities did not give a possible motive for the killing, and it was not immediately clear if Tamayo was targeted due to his work.
The newspaper he worked for, El Pinero de la Cuenca, published an editorial saying Tamayo "documented the acts of violence and social protest in his hometown" and had also reported extensively on crime.
"On many occasions he was intimidated by the forces of official power," it said. "And his stories, the majority of which were about violence, made some uncomfortable."
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Pedro Tamayo Rosas.
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