Photographer for El Diario gunned down
JUAREZ — A photography intern of Juárez’s largest daily newspaper was killed and another intern injured in an attack Thursday afternoon outside a busy mall.
Still wearing press badges and with their equipment handy, Luis Carlos Santiago, 21, and fellow intern Carlos Manuel Sánchez had just learned camera tricks at a workshop. They were about to get a bite to eat.
Instead, Santiago was riddled with bullets about 2:30 p.m. as he was driving a silver Nissan sedan in the parking lot of the Río Grande Mall. The mall is in the busy commercial Triunfo de la República Avenue area in north Juárez
Sánchez, who was sitting on the passenger side, was shot four times. Witnesses said he got out of the car and ran toward the mall before he collapsed. He was sent to the hospital with critical injuries but was later reported in stable condition.
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More photos at the link.El Diario de Juarez photojournalist Christian Torres, colleague of Luis Carlos Santiago who was killed, reacts at the scene of the crime at a shopping mall parking lot in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday Sept. 16, 2010. Santiago, 21, who started working at the newspaper two weeks ago, and fellow photojournalist Carlos Sanchez, an intern, were attacked as they left their offices, according to El Diario de Juarez news director Pedro Torres. Sanchez was seriously wounded. This is the second attack against reporters of El Diario and comes almost a year after the death of reporter Armando Rodriguez who was shot outside his house. (AP Photo/El Diario de Juarez, Ricardo Lopez)