By Ingrid Bachmann
Police reporter Carlos Alberto Guajardo of Expreso newspaper died while covering a shootout between the Mexican military and criminal gangs in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, the Brownsville Herald reports.
Guajardo was reporting on a series of gun battles in Matamoros on Friday Nov. 5 when he was
caught in the middle of cross fire, the Herald says. The longtime reporter was taking a day off when he was called to report on the shootout, the paper adds.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
