Mexico - Border town news website decides to close after editor shot dead

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders urges the Mexican authorities to quickly investigate local news website journalist Jaime Guadalupe González Domínguez's murder on 3 March in Ojinaga, a small town on the US border in the northern state of Chihuahua. The Chihuahua state prosecutor's office said González was driving home when gunmen stopped him at an intersection at around 6:30 p.m., shot him 18 times with large-calibre firearms and took his camera. According to the newspaper La Jornada, the camera (...)

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