Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Sonora say the journalist was talking with the police officers when they were hit by a hail of gunfire
A journalist who ran a community Facebook news page was killed in the northern Mexico border town of San Luis Rio Colorado on Monday, when he was apparently caught in the cross-fire of an attack aimed at police.
Jesus Gutierrez ran Notiface Prensa Digital De San Luis, a Facebook page that included recommendations for local businesses as well as local news stories.Prosecutors in the northern border state of Sonora said Gutierrez was talking with the police officers, who were his neighbours, when they were hit by a hail of gunfire, killing one policeman and wounding the other three. They said Gutierrez’ death was “collateral” to the attack on the police.
San Luis Rio Colorado, located across from Yuma, Arizona, is best known as a border town where Americans go for inexpensive prescriptions and dental work. But it has increasingly been hit by drug cartel violence. At least three other journalists have been killed so far this year in Mexico, which has become one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists outside a war zone.
In the past five years alone, the Committee to Protect Journalists documented the killings of at least 52 journalists in Mexico. Last year, Mexico was one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists, second only to Ukraine.
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