26 April 2011
Alfredo Hurtado
Shooting
Three suspected gang members climbed aboard a bus and shot a television cameraman dead as he rode to work.
A police report said the gunmen approached Alfredo Hurtado, 41, directly and shot him several times. The cameraman worked for El Salvador's Channel 33 covering general news. Police reported no possible motive for the shooting in Jardines de San Bartolo, a town just outside the capital of San Salvador. But investigators suspected gang members because the area has been plagued by turf wars between the Mara Salvatrucha and the Mara 18 gangs.
Hurtado, along with other journalists, sometimes accompanied members of the police to cover night-time raids. The journalist’s family told the paper that he had recently received death threats by gang members operating in the area where he lived.
