MEXICO CITY: A journalist was shot dead in the southern state of Oaxaca Thursday, the fifth killed this year in Mexico, state authorities said.
Heber López, director of the online news site Noticias Web, was killed leaving a recording studio in the port city of Salina Cruz, said an official with the Oaxaca state security agency, who requested anonymity.
Oaxaca State Prosecutor Arturo Peimbert Calvo told Milenio TV that two suspects in the killing were in custody.
López’s murder follows those of four journalists in January.
On January 31, Roberto Toledo, a camera operator and video editor for the online site Monitor Michoacan was shot by assailants as he prepared for an interview in Zitacuaro, Michoacan.
In the border city of Tijuana, on January 17, crime photographer Margarito Martínez was gunned down outside his home. On January 23, reporter Lourdes Maldonado López was found shot to death inside her car also in Tijuana.
Reporter José Luis Gamboa was killed in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz in an attack on January 10.