Official of Anti-Drug Colombia Newspaper Slain, Daughter Shot
The chief of security for a Medellin newspaper that has fought drug trafficking was shot and killed today and his young daughter was wounded, police said.
El Colombiano security chief Jorge Alberto Stefan Gomez was leaving his house with his wife and child when several gunmen in parked cars opened fire with pistols and submachine guns.
Stefan’s wife was not injured. Investigators said they did not know who was behind the attack.
The newspaper El Colombiano has urged the Colombian government to pursue its war on drug traffickers. Medellin, the cocaine capital of Colombia, is where many drug traffickers live. It is also the site of cocaine processing plants.
On March 10 two bombs were thrown from a speeding car at the newspaper’s offices. A guard threw the bombs into the street and a passer-by was killed.
Last November gunmen shot up the home of El Colombiano’s publisher, Juan Gomez Martinez. The gunmen apparently were trying to kidnap Gomez to get the government to suspend extraditions of Colombians to the United States.
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