Miguel Ángel Villagomez Valle

Date of birth: September 29, 1979.

Age at time of death: 29

Marital status: Married with three children (2, 5 and 7 years old)

Prefession/ocupation: His original job was as a printer, starting out at a young age as a pressroom assistant, later also becoming an editor. He first worked at the newspaper Contextos de la Costa and then at the now defunct Infórmate Diario. By then he already liked not only printing and fixing machines but also reporting.

Date of birth: September 29, 1979.

Age at time of death: 29

Marital status: Married with three children (2, 5 and 7 years old)

Prefession/ocupation: His original job was as a printer, starting out at a young age as a pressroom assistant, later also becoming an editor. He first worked at the newspaper Contextos de la Costa and then at the now defunct Infórmate Diario. By then he already liked not only printing and fixing machines but also reporting.

Date of murder: October 9, 2008.

Where and how murder: Villagomez was found shortly after 5:00 a.m. on Friday, October 10 a yard from the sidewalk among bags, bottles and boxes, the remains of an illegal garbage dump. It is a small spot beside the Zihuatanejo to Lázaro Cárdenas highway, one mile from the road to the town of La Unión, Guerrero state. He was facing down, they had shot him six times in the lower back and given him the coup de grace in the neck.

Possible motives: The characteristics and available information give rise to the initial theories point to organized crime, to one of the groups operating in the area and to the fact that it could have been annoyed at the coverage the newspaper gave to the hurling of grenades in Morelia city during Independence Day festivities (on September 15) which resulted in the death of eight people and more than 100 wounded.

Suspects: Organized crime

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