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News anchor Ciro Gómez Leyva survives shooting attempt in Mexico City

  • Source: CPJ
  • December 16, 2022

"Late Thursday [Dec. 15] evening, two unidentified attackers on a motorcycle shot at Ciro Gómez Leyva while he was driving near his Mexico City home and then fled the scene, according to news reports and tweets by the journalist shortly after the attack.

Gómez Leyva, a well-known TV journalist who hosts the Por la Mañana morning radio show on Grupo Fórmula and a primetime TV news show on Grupo Imagen, tweeted photos of his vehicle with several bullet holes and said he was unharmed thanks to bulletproofing armor on his car."

 

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