Guzmán Quintero Torres
Year: 1999
Nationality: Colombia
Killed by: Paramilitary Group
Location: Valledupar, Colombia
Press organization: El Pilón
What's Guzmán Quintero Torres's story?
Quintero, editor of the daily newspaper El Pilón in the northern town of Valledupar, was shot and killed by two assassins on a motorcycle, At 10:00 p.m., Quintero was seated in Los Cardones Hotel and Restaurant, where he often stopped on his way home from work. He was relaxing with two colleagues from the newspaper when a single assassin entered the hotel and shot the journalist four times before escaping on a motorcycle driven by an accomplice.
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