Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from Zeta Tijuana
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José Gerardo Martínez Arriaga, a journalist from El Universal, was killed last night during an assault in the Coyoacán Delegation of Mexico City.
According to the national circulated newpaper's own information, the 35-year-old journalist, who worked as an editor, went to a street market in Coyoacán to buy toys to mark Three Kings Day when he was the victim of an assault in the Ajusto neighborhood, where he was given first attention for a gunshot wound.
The newspaper reports that elements of the Public Security Secretariat of Mexico City (SSP-CdMx) transferred Martínez Arriaga to the Xoco hospital for a gunshot wound to his abdomen. However, he lost his life when he was operated on.
José Gerardo Martínez Arriaga, a journalist from El Universal, was killed last night during an assault in the Coyoacán Delegation of Mexico City.
According to the national circulated newpaper's own information, the 35-year-old journalist, who worked as an editor, went to a street market in Coyoacán to buy toys to mark Three Kings Day when he was the victim of an assault in the Ajusto neighborhood, where he was given first attention for a gunshot wound.
The newspaper reports that elements of the Public Security Secretariat of Mexico City (SSP-CdMx) transferred Martínez Arriaga to the Xoco hospital for a gunshot wound to his abdomen. However, he lost his life when he was operated on.