Local media reported that an investigative journalist from Las Vegas had been discovered dead in front of his house.
After receiving a complaint that a neighbour had passed away, police discovered 69-year-old reporter Jeff German dead outside his home on Saturday at about 10:30 a.m. (local time), according to reports.
German was stabbed on Friday after an incident with another person, according to Caption Dori Koren of the Las Vegas police at a news conference. “He was the gold standard of the news business,” Review-Journal Executive Editor Glenn Cook said.
Cook claimed that German had kept any concerns about his safety from the paper’s management. According to police, there is no public threat as a result of the stabbing.
Earlier, the media reported that a freelance journalist had been discovered dead in Mexico.
The body of Juan Arjon Lopez had been discovered near the border town of San Luis Rio Colorado, according to prosecutors in the border state of Sonora.
They said that the tattoos on the journalist’s body allowed them to identify him after he was reported missing on August 9.
The state Public Ministry claimed in a statement that Lopez died from “head injury due to a blunt hit,” per the autopsy.
According to the news, journalist Antonio de la Cruz was shot to death in Mexico in June, writer Ernesto Mendez was assassinated inside a bar in central Mexico in August, and two of his colleagues from a news website were killed by gunfire in Veracruz on the Gulf coast in May.
Reporter Armando Linares was allegedly shot to death in a residence in the town of Zitacuaro, according to prosecutors in Michoacan, in western Mexico. Juan Carlos Muniz, a crime reporter for the website Testigo Minero in the state of Zacatecas, was assassinated by gunmen at the beginning of March. Heber Lopez, the editor-in-chief of the news website Noticias Web, was fatally shot in the southern state of Oaxaca in February, according to the reports.