WORLD : Mexico Ex-Security Chief, Wanted in Journalist’s Murder, Surrenders
The former head of Mexico’s state security, accused of masterminding the 1984 murder of leading journalist Manuel Buendia, surrendered after a shootout with police, the justice department said today.
No one was injured in the shootout outside a house on one of Mexico City’s main roads Tuesday and the suspect, Jose Antonio Zorrilla Perez, surrendered shortly afterward, the department said.
Buendia, who was shot in the back on May 30, 1984, near a Mexico City parking lot, wrote a column in the leading daily Excelsior exposing official corruption.
Zorrilla Perez was named by local authorities on Sunday as the mastermind of the Buendia killing, which for five years has served to highlight the dangers faced by journalists in Mexico.
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