A Mexican journalist was shot to death in a store parking lot on Saturday in the southern tourist town of Acapulco, regional authorities said, in the country’s second journalist killing in a week.
Prosecutors said they have opened an investigation for homicide with a firearm in the killing of Nelson Matus, days after another journalist was found dead in a country considered one of the most dangerous in the world for members of the press.
Matus, the director of news outlet Lo Real de Guerrero, was shot as he was getting into his car in a thrift shop parking lot.
The Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that it “reiterates its commitment to exhaust every line of investigation” into his death.
Matus had worked as a journalist for 15 years, specializing in covering violence, Mexico delegate for press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders Balbina Flores told AFP.
More than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, according to the group.
The body of fellow journalist Luis Martin Sanchez was found this week “with signs of violence,” officials said, after he had been reported missing.
According to the government, there were 13 killings of journalists reported in Mexico in 2022 alone. The exact circumstances of most such deaths go unsolved.
