Tijuana

Gunmen fired at least 14 bullets early Sunday at the offices of Zeta, the feisty and often controversial Tijuana weekly newspaper, police said.

No one was injured in the shooting, which is believed to have taken place between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., when no one was inside the office.

The gunmen are believed to have driven up to the office and opened fire, spraying the newspaper office, according to agent Ricardo Groves of the Baja California State Judicial Police.

There were no witnesses, Groves said, adding that one bullet went through a window and hit a lamp inside the newspaper office. The other shots lodged in the walls and in a car parked outside.

Police and the newspaper’s editor, J. Jesus Blancornelas, said he knew of no motive.

“I can only guess that this is connected to someone who felt offended by something we wrote recently,” Blancornelas said.

Since its inception seven years ago, Zeta has established itself as a muck-raking, independent newspaper that is not afraid to take on the powerful in Baja California and Mexico. The newspaper has run extensive exposes on political corruption, drug smuggling and other subjects; it also has been a persistent critic of Baja California’s leadership.