Mexico City, September 24, 2018–Mexican authorities must immediately undertake a rigorous and credible investigation into the killing of reporter Mario Leonel Gómez Sánchez in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Gómez, a reporter for local newspaper El Heraldo de Chiapas, was gunned down on September 21 outside his home in the town of Yajalón at approximately 5 p.m. He was killed by two unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle, according to newsreports and El Heraldo‘s news director, José Ramón Gallegos.