Mexico prosecutor: Video has suspects in journalist killing
Mexico prosecutor: Video has suspects in journalist killing
By KATHERINE CORCORAN and ALBERTO ARCE
Associated Press
August 4, 2015 Updated 47 minutes ago
MEXICO CITY — Prosecutors released a surveillance video Tuesday showing suspects calmly leaving an apartment building where five people were found tortured and shot to death, including a photojournalist who had taken refuge in the capital after feeling threatened in the Mexican state he covered.
The video, stamped just after 3 p.m. Friday, shows one man with a roller suitcase walking away and another getting into a red Ford Mustang and driving away. A third suspect is seen crossing the street five minutes later. All three walk normally, and the driver of Mustang takes his time pulling out.
Mexico City Prosecutor Rodolfo Rios Garza said the three men are the prime suspects in the killing of journalist Ruben Espinosa, cultural promoter Nadia Vera and three other women, including a domestic employee. All were found tied up and with gunshot wounds to the head. Espinosa showed signs of torture, and some of the women appeared to have been sexually abused, officials have said.
In June, Espinosa had fled the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, where 11 journalists have been killed since 2010, after he was followed and harassed by strangers waiting outside his house. Once in Mexico City, he still didn't feel safe, telling friends that strangers approached him on two different occasions asking if he was the photographer who had left Veracruz.
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Mexico journalist seeking refuge in capital never felt safe
By KATHERINE CORCORAN and ALBERTO ARCE
Associated Press
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A photograph of murdered photojournalist Ruben Espinosa sits among flowers and
candles in front of his casket inside a funeral home before his wake begins in
Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015. With an investigation barely underway, Mexican
journalist protection groups are already expressing fears that authorities won't
consider Espinosa's brutal killing as being related to his work - even though he fled
the state he covered fearing for his safety. Espinosa, 31, worked for the investigative
magazine Proceso and other media in Veracruz state. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Everything was fine as of 2:13 p.m. Friday.
Ruben Espinosa got a text from a friend. The two had made a pact to stay in touch when Espinosa moved to Mexico City in self-exile. A news photographer for eight years in Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz state, he had left in early June after being followed and harassed by three men in a state where 11 journalists have been killed just since 2010.
"What's up?" the friend, a fellow photographer, wrote.
"I went out with two people. I ended up staying the night and now I'm going home," Espinosa answered a minute later.
It was the last time anyone heard from Espinosa. He was found tortured and shot to death along with four other victims, all women, Friday night in an apartment in a middle-class neighborhood.
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