04 August 2024 | BBC
Mexican journalist killed while under police protection
Shooting
Alejandro Martínez Noguez was shot and killed while in a car with his bodyguards in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato on August 4, 2024.
Martínez went by the nickname “El Hijo del Llanero Solitito” (The Son of the Lone Ranger) and ran a popular Facebook page with that same name, in which he covered crime in the city of Celaya, a four-hour drive north of Mexico City. The page had nearly 350,000 followers.
Minutes before he was killed, Martínez did a live broadcast via his Facebook page on a traffic accident in Celaya that killed an elderly man. In the video, he criticized the poor infrastructure at the place of the accident and called on drivers to limit their speed.
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