10 May 2011
Francisco Medina
Shooting
Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed a journalist outside his home in a city in northern Honduras.
Francisco Medina, a 35-year-old television reporter, was ambushed in the city of Morazan, 75 miles (120 km) north of Honduras' capital, said Santos Galvez, a member of Honduras' College of Journalists press group. Galvez called Medina's slaying work-related and said he had received death threats. In his reporting, Medina was critical of the Honduran national police and of private security firms contracted by ranchers in the area, where drug traffickers operate.
A committee of missing persons in Honduras said Medina was followed by two men on a motorcycle after his evening show. They shot him three times in the back and once in his arm as he was about to enter his home.
