09 August 2006
Enrique Perea Quintanilla
Shooting
The body of Enrique Perea Quintanilla, a longtime police reporter who became editor of a crime magazine, was found at 2 p.m. on the side of a road about 9 miles (15 kilometers) south of Chihuahua.
Perea was shot once in the head and once in the back with a .45-caliber gun. Perea was editor of a monthly magazine, Dos Caras, Una Verdad (Two Sides, One Truth), which specialized in reporting on closed murder cases and local drug trafficking.
He had worked for 20 years as a police reporter for the dailies El Heraldo and El Diario until becoming the magazine’s editor in 2005. The state prosecutor’s office believes the murder is the work of organized crime. While the motive was not immediately clear, Perea’s journalism was one of the investigation’s main leads.
