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Joseph Hernández Ochoa, who hosted an entertainment program on TV station Channel 51, was driving his colleague Karol Cabrera home around 8 p.m. when two unidentified gunmen in a car shot at them in a
Hernández, 26, died at the scene after being shot several
times, while Cabrera was rushed to a local hospital with bullet wounds in the
left arm, the local
media reported. Cabrera, a host with private station Radio Cadena Voces, is
in stable condition in a
Cabrera said she had received several anonymous death threats by phone before the shooting and had been assigned a police escort, the local press reported. The officer was at Cabrera’s home at the time of the attack, according to news reports.
“We are saddened and appalled by the shooting attack that
killed Joseph Hernández Ochoa and injured Karol Cabrera,” said Carlos Lauría,
CPJ’s senior program coordinator for the
An outspoken and controversial journalist, Cabrera is known
for her support of the coup that ousted former president Manuel Zelaya in June
2009. In December, her daughter Kathleen
Nicole Rodríguez Cabrera was shot to death in
similar circumstances while she was in a car in El
Cabrera, who hosted a television show on state-owned Channel
8 during the interim government of Roberto Micheletti, said she believes the
threats were related to her work and she accused Zelaya militants of being
behind the attack, the local
media reported. Cabrera said she
fears for her life and may leave
A spokesman at the national attorney general’s office told CPJ that authorities are investigating the case but have not identified any suspects or disclosed possible motives. CPJ is monitoring the investigation to determine whether the attack is linked to the journalists’ work.
The June ouster of Zelaya, along with the bitter stalemate
that ensued, damaged press freedom in
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