29 January 2010
Jorge Ochoa Martinez
Shooting
The editor-in-chief of the El Sol de la Costa newspaper has been murdered in southern Mexico, the Guerrero state Public Safety Secretariat said.
Jorge Ochoa Martinez’s body was found Friday night in Ayutla de los Libres, a city located some 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the tourist resort of Acapulco. Ochoa Martinez was shot in the face, the secretariat said. Police in Ayutla found the body while responding to a call about a “dead man inside an automobile” a short distance from city hall, the secretariat said. The gunmen who killed the journalist fled in a vehicle, eyewitnesses said. No arrests have been made and the motive for the killing has not been determined.
