14 September 2011
Jose Oquendo Reyes
Shooting
José Oquendo Reyes, an investigative TV reporter who covered local corruption, was gunned down as he was about to enter his home in Chincha, in the southern region of Ica, on 14 September, becoming the second Peruvian TV journalist to be murdered in the space of a week.
The producer and host of the programme “Without Borders” on BTV Canal 45, Oquendo was shot five times at close range by a man on a motorcycle with two other men. His son rushed him to a hospital but he was dead on arrival.
