A journalist in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz has been shot dead just days before he was scheduled to testify before state authorities about threats of violence against him.
The state attorney's office said in a statement that Jorge Celestino Ruiz Vzquez was found dead at his home shortly before midnight Friday after police responded to a call alerting them to gunshots at the residence in Actopan, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of state capital Xalapa.
Ruiz Vzquez was scheduled to give statements to authorities next Tuesday. He alleged that Actopan Mayor Paulino Domnguez Snchez was behind the threats.
The Committee to Protect Journalists says Ruiz Vzquez was the third journalist killed in a single week, and the 10th killed this year, in Mexico.
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