CELAYA (AFP) – A Mexican crime reporter who was under police protection because of an attempt on his life was shot and killed on Sunday, local officials said.
Alejandro Martinez Noguez, who ran a news outlet on Facebook, was killed while riding in a car with bodyguards in the state of Guanajuato after a reporting assignment, the security department of the city of Celaya said.
“Civilian attackers in a pickup truck opened fire with guns at a car assigned to the reporter and his team of bodyguards by the city government,” the secretariat said in a statement.
