23 September 2009
Norberto Miranda
Shooting
Norberto Miranda, 44, was shot dead in front of his colleagues by a drug hitmen in the rural town of Nuevo Casas Grandes in Chihuahua state near the U.S. border.
Gunmen shot Miranda several times and escaped. "His body was found full of bullets in the radio's offices," said a spokesman for the Chihuahua attorney general's office, Vladimir Tuexi.
The newspaper El Diario said Miranda, who was well-known locally, had recently reported on growing drug violence in the remote area of Chihuahua state, which cartels use to run narcotics into Texas.
