26 May 2009
Eliseo Barrón Hernández
Shooting
Eliseo Barrón Hernández, a reporter and photographer for the Torreón-based daily La Opinión, was abducted from his house in the city of Gómez Palacio, Durango.
At least eight hooded gunmen entered Barrón's home, beat the reporter and forced him out of the house and into a white Nissan Tsuru that was parked outside, his wife told local reporters.
Authorities found his body Barrón's body was found with a gunshot wound to his head in an irrigation ditch.
Barrón, 35, had covered the police beat for 10 years for La Opinión, which is based out of neighboring Coahuila state. In the days prior to his kidnapping, the journalist had covered a corruption scandal in the Torreón police that had resulted in the firing of 302 police officers and the investigation of at least 20 others.
