Unidentified attackers shot and killed reporter Calletano de Jesús Guerrero while he was in the parking lot of the San Antonio de Padua parish church in Teoloyucan, a town 25 miles north of Mexico City, on January 17, 2025.
Guerrero, 57, had been under federal protection since 2014 because of threats relating to his journalism. Guerrero worked as deputy editor of Facebook-based news outlet Global Mexico and regularly published news stories about crime, violence, and politics in México state.
The Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, a government agency that provides protective measures to journalists, said in a January 18 statement on social media platform X that the most recent threat against Guerrero was on January 13, 2024, when unidentified men threatened him at his residence because of his reporting.
A mechanism official declined to speak via messaging app as they were not authorized to comment publicly on the case.
Police recovered two 9mm bullet casings at the scene of the crime, according to a report by news website Fuerza Informativa Azteca, which added that the police had begun an investigation. CPJ’s several calls to the Estado de México state prosecutor’s office to request comment were unanswered.