01 January 2008
José Fernando Gonzáles
Shooting
Two individuals entered the station, pretending to be clients of the station, and as soon as radio station owner, José Fernando Gonzáles appeared to attend to them, they shot him repeatedly, killing him on the spot, without speaking a word.
The incident took place in the north-western community of Santa Bárbara, some 250 kilometres from the capital, Tegucigalpa. The two individuals came by truck; three others remained waiting in the truck while the killers entered the building. The killers told staff that they were interested in buying advertising time. Gonzáles was then in the broadcast booth with two programme hosts. When he exited the booth, the killers opened fire. Silvio Inestroza, the Santa Bárbara chief of police, says the police are entertaining two hypotheses with regard to the motives of the killing: that it was either a crime of passion, or related to his work. Gonzáles had been expanding his media holdings in the region.
