(IFJ/IFEX) – Félix Fernández García, editor of the magazine “Nueva Opcion”, has been killed in a hail of bullets in Tamaulipas state. Two individuals fired AK-47 machine-guns at Fernández from a passing vehicle, half a block away from the Municipal Palace. Martín Acosta and Carlos Domínguez, who were accompanying Fernández at the time, said that […]
(IFJ/IFEX) – Félix Fernández García, editor of the magazine “Nueva Opcion”, has been killed in a hail of bullets in Tamaulipas state. Two individuals fired AK-47 machine-guns at Fernández from a passing vehicle, half a block away from the Municipal Palace.
Martín Acosta and Carlos Domínguez, who were accompanying Fernández at the time, said that the assassination took place on the night of Friday 18 January 2002, while they were coming out of a restaurant in front of the Telmex building. According to the Sunday 20 January edition of Mexican newspaper “Reforma”, both individuals were held for questioning by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
As “Reforma” reported, Acosta and Domínguez “stated that the assailants fled in a recent model blue Grand Marquis Ford automobile.” However, as of Sunday 20 January the automobile had not been located, according to Commander Martín Landa of the State Ministerial Police (Policía Ministerial del Estado).
Speaking in Ciudad Victoria, Prosecutor Francisco Cayuela Villarreal said that a number of leads will be investigated but declined to comment further, citing security reasons.
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