Víctor Pérez Pérez

Victor Pérez Pérez was a Mexican journalist who was murdered in 2014.[1]

Career

Pérez was a writer and editor of the magazine Suceso, which was published irregularly in Ciudad Juarez and focused on political reportage and opinion.[1]

In June 2008, his father, Candelario Pérez Rodríguez, who also worked on the same magazine, was assassinated.[1]

Murder

On September 3, 2014, Pérez was assaulted in his home in Luis Echeverría, a suburb of Ciudad Juarez, by two men who broke in, one of whom shot him at close range. He made it alive to a nearby hospital but died shortly after his arrival there.[1][2][3]

He was the seventh journalist to be murdered in Mexico in 2014.[4]

References
  1. "Asesinan a periodista en Ciudad Juárez". Vanguardia. Sep 4, 2014.
  2. "Asesinan a periodista en su casa en Chihuahua". Informador.
  3. Fierro, Luis (Sep 4, 2014). "Asesinan a periodista en Ciudad Juárez". Red Politica.
  4. "Shots fired at newspaper editor's home in Veracruz state". Reporters without Borders. Sep 4, 2014.
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