05 April 2006
Jose Aguirre
Shooting
Jose Aguirre, Venezuelan photographer working for El Mundo newspaper, was fatally shot while covering protests of the kidnapping and murders of three Canadian boys and their driver.
The photographer was driving his car to the Central University of Venezuela where the protests were taking place, when "an apparent police officer on a motorcycle without license plates stopped him". When Aguirre got out of his car, which was clearly marked as a press vehicle, the supposed officer fired three times, once in Aguirre's thorax, and fled.
