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Fifth Journalist Killed in Mexico This Year
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February 12, 2022
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2:22Now PlayingA journalist was shot dead in the southern state of Oaxaca on Thursday, the fifth killed this year in Mexico, 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 Noticias Web.
The Oaxaca state prosecutor's office said that two suspects in the killing were in custody and a gun had been recovered from them.
Rodolfo Canseco Gutiérrez, director of the online news site RCP Noticias and a longtime friend of López's, said the journalist covered crime and police news.
Witnesses said that around 6:30 p.m., López was in his office when a white vehicle carrying two men pulled up in front, Canseco Gutiérrez said. One man got out, walked into the office and shot López, he said.
Canseco Gutiérrez said he had just had breakfast with López on Wednesday.
He said his friend had never told him he'd received threats, but he didn't doubt the killing had to do with his work.
"It may be that these regrettable crimes may be committed, but there is no impunity, zero impunity," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised. "It's not the same as it used to be."
López’s murder follows those of four journalists in January.
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