Rafael Munguía Ortiz

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Unidentified gunmen in a green car shot Munguía, a local
correspondent for the national Radio Cadena Voces (RCV), on a street in
the Medina neighborhood of San Pedro Sula, 110 miles (175 kilometers) northwest of
the capital city of Tegucigalpa,
according to local news reports and CPJ interviews.

Eric Peñalva, a police spokesman, told CPJ that the
journalist was shot seven times from a 9mm weapon at around 6 p.m.

Munguía, 52, had a long history as a journalist in San Pedro Sula, and had
been with RCV for more than two years, his colleague, Melissa Amaya, told CPJ.
He had recently reported on violence and organized crime, she said.