Ruperto Armenta Gerardo
Year: 1995
Nationality: Mexico
Killed by: Local Residents
Location: Guasave, Mexico
Press organization: El Regional
What's Ruperto Armenta Gerardo's story?
Armenta, editor of the Guasave-based weekly El Regional in Sinaloa, was beaten to death by the lawyer Felipe de Jesús Lizárraga. His body was dumped in a canal near Guasave. Lizárraga, who was an acquaintance of Armenta and was driving with him in the car that was found at the scene, originally claimed that police agents attacked them. But because of contradictions in his statement and other circumstantial evidence, the lawyer was charged with the murder and detained.
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