29 March 2011
Jose Luis Cerda Melendez and Luis Emanuel Ruiz Carrillo
Shooting
Two Mexican journalists have been killed in Monterrey in the northern state of Nuevo León in a murder that appears to be tied to organized crime.
José Luis “La Gata” Cerda Meléndez, 33, host of the “El Club” program on national TV channel Televisa, and Luis Emanuel Ruíz Carrillo, 20, a reporter for daily “La Prensa”, based in the neighbouring state of Coahuila, were shot after being kidnapped Thursday evening.
Cerda and Ruíz were leaving the Televisa studios in Monterrey with Cerda’s cousin, Juan Roberto Gómez, when gunmen forced them into a sport utility vehicle. The bodies of Ruíz and Gómez were discovered Friday morning near a freeway. Police later found Cerda’s body with his hands bound and a gunshot wound to his head.
