Luis Alonzo Almendares

Year: 2020

Nationality: Honduras

Killed by: Government Officials,Criminal Group

Location: Comayagua, Honduras

Press organization: Freelance

What's Luis Alonzo Almendares's story?

At about 6 p.m. on September 27, 2020, in the central Honduran city of Comayagua, two unidentified individuals on a motorcycle shot Luis Alonzo Almendares, a local freelance journalist, three times and then fled the scene; bystanders brought the journalist to a local hospital, and he was then transferred to the Escuela Universitario hospital in the capital city of Tegucigalpa, where he died the next morning, according to news reports and a report by Honduran free expression organization C-Libre.

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