TIJUANA, Mexico — Three suspects were arrested Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the fatal shooting of veteran Tijuana reporter Lourdes Maldonado López.
Maldonado was shot to death in her car on Jan. 23 with a single gunshot to the face. She was the second journalist killed in a week’s time in the border city. On Jan. 17, Margarito Martínez Esquivel, who worked as a journalist and “fixer” assisting international outlets as well as for The San Diego Union-Tribune and Los Angeles Times, was shot three times outside his Tijuana home.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed the arrests in his daily morning news conference Wednesday, accompanied by his national secretary and sub-secretary of public safety.
