Journalist shot dead in Mexico is the 15th murdered this year

Fredid Román, who ran the program called “The Reality of Guerrero” was gunned down inside his vehicle in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, local prosecutors said.

Román focused heavily on state-level politics in his reporting and previously published a newspaper under the same name in Guerrero — where drug cartels, armed vigilantes and other groups regularly clash.

His murder adds to the horrific, record-breaking tally of journalist slayings this year in Mexico. Outside of a warzone, Mexico is now considered the most dangerous country for reporters.

The area of Sonora where his body was found, San Luis Rio Colorado, has been rocked by drug cartel violence in recent years. In March, volunteers discovered 11 bodies in clandestine burial pits near a garbage dump in a stretch of desert there.

Jan-Albert Hootsen said.

Although some arrests have been made in earlier cases of press killings this year, an ongoing climate of impunity continues to fuel these attacks

Independent journalists and reporters running small news outlets often face the greatest danger.
He is the 15th member of the media to be murdered in the country this year.