08 September 2011
Pedro Alfonso Flores Silva
Shooting
Peruvian television journalist Pedro Alfonso Flores Silva died from gunshot wounds sustained in an attack by an unidentified assailant late Tuesday, local press said.
Flores Silva, 36, was riding home on his motorcycle on the Panamericana Norte Highway in the northwestern province of Casma when he was intercepted by a taxi, press reports said. A hooded assailant got out from the back of the vehicle and shot him once in the abdomen.
Flores Silva was taken to a local hospital where he died. Flores Silva ran and hosted the Casma-based Channel 6 news program "Visión Agraria." The journalist's wife, Mercedes Cueva Abanto, told reporters that her husband had received anonymous death threats via text message for several months prior to his murder.
