Cutting to the chase here, the bodyguard of the journalist shot the criminal from what I heard. It was probably an assassination attempt but it could have been a carjacking too. In Mexico City, you just might not know.
1 dead in Mexico City shooting involving prominent columnist
MEXICO CITY – A man has been killed during an attack on a prominent Mexican journalist that was thwarted by the columnist's bodyguard in an upscale Mexico City neighborhood.
It was not immediately clear if columnist Héctor de Mauleón was targeted Monday or if it was an attempted carjacking on a tree-lined street in the Condesa district.
Mexico's federal security agency condemned the incident, but officials have not released details on who was killed. An Associated Press journalist at the scene saw a body loaded into a forensic van.
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