MEXICO CITY (CN) — On Friday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the death of Josué Martínez Contreras, the director of online news outlet Noticias San Martín Texmelucan, in the state of Puebla. He is the sixth journalist murdered so far this year in Mexico, and the third in the span of a month.
Martínez Contreras, known locally as “the jaguar,” was shot and killed around 8 a.m. Thursday by two men on a motorcycle who fled the scene. He was just steps away from his home in the town of San Lucas Atoyatenco, Puebla, when the attack occurred. His 13-year-old son was also present but unharmed.
No arrests have been made.
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